Max Claus (military musician)

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Max Claus 1910
Around 1903
Title page of the sheet music of the Prince Karl Dragoon March (video see web link)
Program sheet for the anniversary concert on June 1, 1908 in Lucerne
Start of the jubilee march "Dem Vaterland" by Max Claus, composed in 1926 for the Kandern Town Musicians

Max Claus (born May 21, 1856 in Pritschöna , district of Schkopau ; † October 19, 1937 in Erfurt ) was a stick trumpeter and chief musician of the Badische Dragoons in Mulhouse / Alsace.

Life

From 1882 Max Claus was a trumpeter in the Thuringian Hussar Regiment No. 12 in Merseburg. This was followed by three years of study at the Berlin University of Music with a musical and military examination for military music in 1886. He then became the musical corps leader in field artillery regiments No. 4 and No. 11 in Burg near Magdeburg. He held this office from 1886 to 1890. He then became a baton trumpeter of the Badische Dragoons  ( 3rd Badisches Dragoons Regiment "Prince Karl" No. 22 ) in Mulhouse / Alsace and was appointed "Royal Music Conductor" in 1898 under Colonel Brinckmann, commander of the Badische Dragoons in Mulhouse / Alsace. Another appointment as head music master of the Badische Dragoons in Mulhouse / Alsace followed around 1899. Numerous successful concerts by the Dragoons band in Mulhouse / Alsace followed. Up to 1914 Max Claus also undertook extensive concert tours with the Dragoon band in southern Germany and Switzerland, with very good reports in the local and national press.

At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the 3rd Badische Dragoon Regiment "Prinz Karl" No. 22 was transferred to the Baden Infantry Replacement Battalions No. 142 and No. 170. During the entire First World War from 1914 to 1918, Max Claus and his regiment were deployed in military supplies, in the reporting service and similar services. After the third Badische Dragoon Regiment "Prince Carl" Nr. 22 in the in 1919, 18 riders Regiment (4th Squadron) was incorporated, also followed in 1919, the expulsion of Max Claus as so-called Altdeutscher accordance with the Treaty of Versailles from the Alsace to Schweighof (Sorry) in Germany.

After retiring from active military service around 1925, Max Claus found a second home with his children in Erfurt.

Compositions

In addition to versatile music for trumpeter corps and military bands, Max Claus has created many transcriptions and arrangements of classical music for his public concerts for performance by military bands, etc.

He has also proven his musical expertise as a competent judge at federal music festivals.

Traditional compositions

  • "Prince Karl Dragoon March " for the 50th anniversary of the regiment, 1900, Opus 20, for cavalry or infantry orchestra - audio document and video below
  • Male choir of 4 voices: "Gut Heil zum Stiftungsfeste" Opus 21, for the 25th anniversary of the foundation festival of the Mülhausen i. E.
  • Anniversary march: "Dem Vaterland" composed for the "Stadtmusik Kandern 1876"
  • Song: "In Alsace", for choir of 4 voices with string or wind quartet
  • Male choir with four voices: "In the Black Forest" dedicated to the Schweighof community as a friendly reminder

Awards

Max Claus was awarded 13 orders and decorations, including:

family

Max Gottlob Emil Claus lived from 1856 to 1937. He married Wilhelmine Haring in Lössen (Schkopau) in 1884 and had four children with her. In 1893 his wife and their fourth child died in Mulhouse / Alsace. He married Emma Dolder again in Egg ZH near Zurich in 1897 and had two children with her.

As a result of the Versailles Treaty , Max Claus and his family were expelled from Alsace in 1919 and expropriated. He had to leave his house and land in Mulhouse to the state.

information

The Baden-Württemberg State Archive has numerous original files from the former 3rd Badischer Dragoon Regiment "Prince Karl" No. 22. These files are kept in the Karlsruhe General State Archive under 456 F 77 from the period 1869 to 1920.

The collection, which is divided into 189 bundles of files ( fascicles ), makes it possible to study the activities of the regiment before and during the First World War, but also to obtain information about the dissolution of the regiment in 1920. The inventory has a file size of 4.2 linear meters and can be viewed in the archive. The titles of the 189 bundles of files can be called up on the Internet.

literature

  • Alfred Sostmann: History of the 3rd Badischer Dragoon Regiment "Prince Karl" No. 22. Berlin 1898, p. 186, 194, 213.
  • Lieutenant Bahls: 3rd Baden Dragoon Regiment "Prince Karl" No. 22. Mulhouse 1909.
  • Badische Dragoons: Festschrift - In memory of the regiment day and the inauguration of the monument of the 3rd Baden Dragoons Regiment “Prince Karl” No. 22 in Freiburg im Br., 6. – 8. June 1925. Freiburg im Br., 1925.
  • Georg Bahls: The 3rd Badische Dragoon Regiment "Prince Karl" No. 22. Berlin 1934, p. 110 to 114.
  • J. Henle (Ed.): Address book of all former members of the 3rd Baden Dragoon Regiment "Prinz Karl" No. 22. Karlsruhe 1936.
  • Our eighty-year-olds: music master Claus. In: The Black Dragoon. 1936, p. 203.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IR 142 - GenWiki. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ IR 170 - GenWiki. Retrieved July 5, 2019 .
  3. ^ German military march "Prinz-Carl-Dragoon March". September 11, 2010, accessed July 5, 2019 .
  4. ↑ State Archive of Baden-Wüttenberg. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Claus, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Pritschöna , district of Schkopau , Saxony-Anhalt
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1937
Place of death Erfurt