Paul Adolph (Artistic Director)

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Friedrich Theodor Paul Adolph (born June 25, 1868 in Dresden ; † June 23, 1941 ibid) was a German secret councilor and general manager of the Saxon State Theater in Dresden.

Life

He was the son of the Dresden painter Gustav Adolph. After attending grammar school in Dresden, he studied law and passed his legal trainee and assessor exams. On April 1, 1909, he was appointed member of the board of directors of the Royal Saxon Court Theater. In the First World War he took part as a volunteer and served in the 1st Uhlan Regiment No. 17 in Oschatz .

After Paul Adolph had worked for eleven years in the general management (including most recently as administrative director) at the Saxon Court Theater and then in the Saxon Ministry of Culture, the Interior and the Ministry of Justice, after the National Socialist " seizure of power " in March 1933 , he became General Director of the Saxon State Theater. He held this position until 1935.

He died two days before the age of 73 and was buried in the Trinity cemetery in Dresden, where his tomb is still to this day.

Works

  • From court to state theater , 1931.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. How Dresden lost its innocence
  2. Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, p. 9.