Hermann Grote (composer)

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Statue of Hermann Grote in Hohegeiß, Harz, 2018

Hermann Grote (born January 29, 1885 in Hohegeiß in the Harz Mountains ; † March 21, 1971 there ) was a pedagogue and composer . He became particularly well-known as the composer and lyricist of the “ Lower Saxony song ” written in Braunschweig around 1926 .

Life

Grote first attended the teacher training college in Wolfenbüttel and then from 1906 worked at elementary and secondary schools in Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig. In 1927 he passed the examination to become a high school music teacher at the Berlin Academy for Church and School Music as a primary school teacher . From 1929 Grote worked as a music teacher at the Braunschweiger Lessing School, later at the Gauß School . In addition, he worked as a composer and led a large number of choirs in Braunschweig, B. the largest in the city, the "Volkschor", as well as the MIAG choir. He led this people's choir in the German Workers' Association from 1919 and was a member of the SPD around 1929 . In May 1933 he joined the NSDAP . In 1945 he was suspended from school service and denazified as a follower in 1948 .

After his retirement in 1957, Grote returned to his birthplace Hohegeiß (today part of Braunlage ), where he headed the local men's choir until 1964.

Since the end of November 2009, a bronze statue in front of the Hohegeisser Heimatmuseum has been reminding him. At its inauguration, Braunlager Mayor Stefan Grote ( SPD ) emphasized that his namesake “is by no means to be classified politically 'right-wing'”.

Memorial stone for Hermann Grote in Hohegeiß, Harz, 2018

Works (selection)

For orchestra and choir

  • Home by the sea for choirs
  • Lower Saxony march for wind orchestra
  • Homeland for male choir
  • Lower Saxony song for voice and piano
  • A little song for a male choir

Tone sentences

  • The commemorations are free
  • Regiment pulls its road

Melodies

  • Heini, Heini, oh, Heini is stupid
  • I want to spread my arms into the great blue

Individual works

  • Out into sunshine and the scent of flowers (Wanderlied)
  • With a ringing game the flag pulls out
  • Zuck, zuck, zuck na'r Möhlen, Hans rode up 'n Föhlen (up'n pair)

literature

  • Manfred RW Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf, Norman-Mathias Pingel: Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon - supplementary volume , Braunschweig, 1996
  • Dieter Lent: Grote, Karl Wilhelm Hermann. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hanover 1996, p. 229 (with archive and photo evidence from the Wolfenbüttel State Archive)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Eggers: Grote statue in Hohegeiß officially inaugurated  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Goslarsche Zeitung . December 1, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.goslarsche.de  
personal data
SURNAME Grote, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grote, Herman; Grote, H .; Grote, Karl Wilhelm Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohegeiß
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1971
Place of death Hohegeiß