Karl Hohenberger

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Karl Hohenberger (also Carl Hohenberger , * around 1915; † 1945 ) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( trumpet ).

Hohenberger was the younger brother of the jazz musician and band leader Kurt Hohenberger , in whose orchestra he played; from 1936 he also worked in the dance and studio orchestras under the direction of Otto Stenzel , Oscar Joost , Teddy Stauffer , Die Goldene Sieben , Peter Kreuder , Erwin Steinbacher , Franz Thon , Henk Bruyns and Ernst Weiland . In the field of jazz he was involved in 86 recording sessions between 1936 and 1944. In 1938 he separated from his Jewish wife, an indication of the historian Michael M. Kater's apolitical stance, which he shared with many musicians.

On September 18, 1943, shortly before the war-related relocation of the German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra (DTU) from Berlin to Prague, Hohenberger was arrested after an orchestra rehearsal; The week before, under the influence of alcohol, he had asked the pianist in the Cantina restaurant in Hamburg to play Jewish songs, “and songs that the officers at the front would like. The owner, a member of the NSDAP , tried to calm him down, but Hohenberger pointed to the NSDAP badge and swore: “ You don't have to be fooling yourself about that thing, you sch ... lad! It's over with Adolf Hitler anyway! «“

In December 1943 Hohenberger was transferred from the Gestapo headquarters to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he was awaiting his trial for “ defeatism and treason”. The Berlin special court , however, assessed Hohenberger's alcohol intoxication as a mitigating circumstance and sentenced him to two years in prison. Hohenberger escaped from prison at the end of the war, but shortly after May 1945, when he was on his way back to Berlin, a Soviet patrol asked him to identify himself. Karl Hohenberger reached into his pocket, whereupon the soldiers shot him. They assumed he wanted to draw a gun.

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  1. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online)
  2. ↑ a b c Michael H. Kater : Daring game. Jazz under National Socialism . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02409-4 . P. 342 f.
personal data
SURNAME Hohenberger, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and entertainment musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1915
DATE OF DEATH around May 1945