Josef Lengsfeld
Josef Lengsfeld (born April 30, 1878 in Dobrowitz , Bohemia , † November 11, 1938 in Munich ) was a German musician, concertmaster and composer of Jewish origin.
Life
He was the youngest of the three sons of the doctor Moritz Lengsfeld (* 1841-after 1901) in Dobrowitz and Johanna Kornfeld (1849-1901). Lengsfeld was a violinist and has worked in his hometown Dobrowitz, in Franzensbad , Bad Kissingen and in Munich. Most recently he was first violinist in the Munich Philharmonic . He and his concertmaster Carl Snoeck were the only two Jews in the orchestra and were therefore dismissed in April 1938 "for racial reasons". In March 1934 he and Carl Snoeck had already been dismissed from the Bad Kissingen spa orchestra , which at that time consisted of musicians from the Munich Philharmonic in the summer months.
Lengsfeld and his wife Hedwig (born December 9, 1884 in Eger ) took their own life with gas after the November pogroms in their apartment at Horscheltstrasse 1 ( Schwabing-West ).
literature
- Michael H. Kater: The twisted muse. Musicians and their music in the Third Reich , Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0195132424
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Lengsfeld in the catalog of the German National Library
- Josef Lengsfeld in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of ancestors
- ↑ Thomas Ahnert, Peter Weidisch (ed.): 1200 years Bad Kissingen, 801-2001, facets of a city history . Festschrift for the anniversary year and accompanying volume for the exhibition of the same name. Special publication of the Bad Kissingen city archive. Verlag TA Schachenmayer, Bad Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-929278-16-2 , page 343
- ↑ The staged outrage. November 9, 1938 , Federal Institute for Civic Education, Topics and Materials, Bonn 2010, page 20 (PDF; 3.9 MB)
- ^ Andreas Heusler, Tobias Weger : Kristallnacht, violence against the Munich Jews in November 1938. Buchendorfer Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3927984868 , page 142, excerpt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lengsfeld, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician, concertmaster and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 30, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dobrowitz , Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1938 |
| Place of death | Munich |