Joseph Neyses
Joseph Neyses (born November 10, 1893 in Gummersbach , † May 23, 1988 in Düsseldorf ) was a German musician.
Life
Joseph Neyses was director of the Robert Schumann Conservatory (today Robert Schumann University ) in Düsseldorf from 1945 to 1964 .
From 1920 to 1976 he was director of the Düsseldorf Bach Society, with which he gave important performances in the St. John Passion (March 1958) and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the litany of Heinrich Schütz with the participation of Peter Pears and Hermann Prey . The performance of the Messiah in 1946 in the Max Church was also significant . Under his aegis, the Robert Schumann Conservatory developed into a training institute known beyond the boundaries of the city of Düsseldorf; he brought in the violinist Sándor Végh , the singing teacher Franziska Martinßen-Lohmann and the acoustician Friedrich Trautwein, with whom he set up Germany's first sound engineer seminar, to Düsseldorf.
Rescue resistance 1944–1945
Joseph Neyses and his wife Hilde Luise Ottilie Neyses born. Möllenhoff had been hiding Erna Etscheid from Düsseldorf, a Jewish woman who was married to a non-Jewish acquaintance of the Neyses, since mid-September 1944. Etscheid, living in a so-called mixed marriage (National Socialism) , had received the request from the state police in Düsseldorf to come to the Derendorfer slaughterhouse on September 17, 1944 for removal and deportation. For this she did not appear, but after some hesitation accepted the offer of the Neyses to go into hiding with them. She lived in the cellar of the house in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel , Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 65, until the liberation of the left bank of the Rhine by Americans on 2/3. March 1945.
Honors
- Professor-Neyses-Platz in Derendorf
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (January 5, 1959)
- Righteous Among the Nations (April 2, 1981, with wife)
- Permanent exhibition for the Neyses couple in the Dusseldorf Memorial and Memorial (since 2015)
Web links
- Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians, edited by Israel Gutman, Daniel Fraenkel, Jacob Borut, Wallstein-Verlag Berlin 2005
- Database entry at Yad Vashem: http://db.yadvashem.org/righteous/family.html?language=en&itemId=4043014
- Literature by and about Joseph Neyses in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
- ↑ Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations, p. 208 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Neyses, Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gummersbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1988 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |