Herbert Hiebsch

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Herbert Hiebsch (born June 13, 1905 in Werbitz , Austria-Hungary ; died November 22, 1948 in Winterbach , Württemberg) was a German-Czech musicologist and National Socialist music official.

Life

Herbert Hiebsch was a great-nephew of the Viennese music theorist Josef Hiebsch . From 1924 to 1928 he studied law at the German University in Prague and from 1924 to 1934 at the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague, music theory and composition with Fidelio F. Finke and piano with F. Langer. He was promoted to Dr. jur. doctorate and was appointed judge in Prague and in Kuttenberg after the judge's examination in 1934 . Hiebsch founded several Anton Bruckner companies in Bohemia. In 1931 he published a novel about Anton Bruckner . Since the mid-1930s he was an active member of the Sudeten German Party and the League of Germans in Bohemia. At the end of 1938, Hiebsch was on a list of music teachers at the German Academy for Music who were financially supported by the Sudeten German MP Ernst Kundt from a black fund in the German Reich .

Hiebsch became a member of the NSDAP in 1939 and after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia received a number of offices and functions in the German administration of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . In August 1940 he was head of the German National Education Center in Prague. From 1940 until the end of the war he was music advisor in Prague at the cultural department of the German State Ministry for the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and head of the Prague cultural office of the NSDAP. From 1941 he was managing director of the German Music Society and the German Music Weeks. Hiebsch was also the district administrator of the NS organization Kraft durch Freude . He wrote in the German-language publications Böhmen und Moravia and Der neue Tag . Finke composed the hymn O Herzland Böhmen based on a poem by Hiebsch, which was performed in 1942.

After the war ended and his escape, Hiebsch headed the adult education center in Schorndorf .

Fonts (selection)

  • The divine finale . Zurich: Amalthea-Verl., 1931
  • On the performance of the cathedral scene from Finkes “Jakobsfahrt” , in: Deutsche Zeitung Bohemia , June 27, 1935, p. 6
  • Bruckner's original versions. On the performance of the 5th symphony as part of the Prague Culture Week , in: Der neue Tag, June 8, 1939
  • German music in Prague , in: Bohemia and Moravia. Journal of the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia , published by State Secretary SS-Gruppenführer Karl Hermann Frank , chief editor: Friedrich Heiss. Prague, Volk und Reich Verlag, issue 5, August 1940
  • On the 50th birthday of the composer Fidelio Friedrich Finke , In: Böhmen und Moravia , 1941, p. 418

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hiebsch, Josef (1854-1897), musicologist. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 313.
  2. ↑ Volker Mohn: NS-Kulturpolitik , 2014, p. 292
  3. ↑ Franziska Stoff: Between the Chairs. On the affiliation process of the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague to the German Charles University 1938–1945 , in: Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis 53, 2, 2013, pp. 81–153, here p. 93 note 61 .
  4. ↑ Franziska Stoff: Between the Chairs. On the affiliation process of the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague to the German Charles University 1938–1945 , in: Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis, 2013, pp. 81–153, here p. 120.
  5. ↑ Volker Mohn: NS-Kulturpolitik , 2014, p. 292
  6. ↑ Volker Mohn: NS-Kulturpolitik , 2014, p. 316
personal data
SURNAME Hiebsch, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Czech musicologist and National Socialist music functionary
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Werbitz , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1948
Place of death Winterbach , Württemberg