Julius Möllendorf

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Julius Möllendorf (* 1821 ; † 1895 ) was a German military musician and composer .

Career

Möllendorf served as a royal Prussian civil servant, beginning as a trainee lawyer in Leobschütz in Upper Silesia and finally as a district judge in Potsdam .

He achieved particular fame for his Parade March No. 1 , composed in 1846 (also called Möllendorfer Parade March No. 1 after the composer ). This was the presentation march of the 1st Württemberg Uhlan Regiment "King Karl" in Ulm , the 1st Bavarian Uhlan Regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm II" in Bamberg and the Schleswig-Holstein Uhlan Regiment No. 15 in Saarburg . Furthermore, it was the parade march in the step of the 2nd Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment No. 9 in Demmin and the 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment in Potsdam .

The parade march No. 1 was also included in the Royal Prussian Army March Collection , the catalog of German military marching music , under the numbers AM I, 32 and AM III, 51 . The parade march No. 2 with the number AM III, 52 was among other things the parade march of the field artillery regiment of Clausewitz (1st Upper Silesia) No. 21 in Neisse ( Silesia ).

The music master Heinrich Saro , later successor to Wilhelm Wieprecht as military music officer, from Grenadier-Rgt. 11 from Breslau made the arrangement. A special role is played Parademarsch no. 1 in the film Triumph of the Will by Leni Riefenstahl about Nazi Party Rally of 1934. Here promoted alongside the march clock especially the melodic elements of the march, the suggestion of harmony in the deployment of the SA and SS.

Wilhelm Stephan put on a new collection for the Bundeswehr , which also included Parade March No. 1 .

In 2009, the parade march number 1 was also heard at Trooping the Color .

literature

  • Joachim Toeche-Mittler: Army marches. Part II. The Army March Collection. The regiments with details of their presentation and parade marches. Composers' Lexicon. Kurt Vowinckel Verlag, Neckargemünd 1971.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Appearance of the British Guard with the Parade March No. 1 at Trooping the Color 2009
personal data
SURNAME Möllendorf, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1821
DATE OF DEATH 1895