Reinhold Zimmermann

Reinhold Zimmermann (born August 11, 1889 in Aachen , † April 4, 1956 in the same place) was a German school principal, choir conductor and music writer.

Life

Zimmermann became a teacher in Aachen in 1910 and a primary school director there in 1941. In 1920 he became music editor of the magazine Der Türmer and later wrote in particular for the magazine for music . From 1925 to 1939 he organized highly acclaimed youth concerts in Aachen.

Hans Joachim Moser writes in his obituary about Zimmermann: "One of his preferred areas was the question of 'music and race', in which, however, with a great knowledge of anthropological research, he never went astray ." Like his friend Moser, Zimmermann was one of the ardent advocates of the Nazi ideology and emerged in 1920 with anti-Semitic attacks against the "spirit of internationalism in music". In 1923 he became a member of the NSDAP and in 1933 a member of the National Socialist Teachers' Association . Later he was in the Reichsschrifttumskammer "specialist writer for music and racial studies" and from 1936 employee in the Reich leadership of the race political office . In 1942 - according to his own statement - he was excluded from the NSDAP, but according to official documents not until 1944. The reasons are not known.

The focus of his research was on Beethoven's Adlatus Anton Schindler as well as César Franck and Anton Bruckner . He owned numerous letters from Beethoven to Schindler, which are now in the Beethoven House in Bonn .

Publications (selection)

• The second German performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Aachen on May 23, 1825 . In: Neue Musik-Zeitung , vol. 42 (1921), pp. 71–74
• Anton Schindler's notes on the orchestras' performances in Paris and Berlin . In: The orchestra. Bi-monthly publication for the promotion of music and the music profession , vol. 3 (1926), pp. 193f., 205f., 219f.
• A. Schindler's relationship to the music and the musicians of his time, based on Schindler's diary entries . In: Neue Musik-Zeitung , vol. 47 (1926), pp. 245–250
• Anton Schindler (1795–1864), a life for Beethoven . In: Beethoven-Almanach der Deutschen Musikbücherei for the year 1927 , Regensburg 1927, pp. 374–382
• An “Aesthetics of Music” by Anton Schindler . In: Allgemeine Musikzeitung , vol. 57 (1930), pp. 313–316 (on a book by Schindler from 1846)
• A new Beethoven find in Anton Schindler's estate . In: Die Musik , vol. 23.1, March 1931, pp. 401–414, Textarchiv - Internet Archive (Beethoven's an unknown conversation book)
• Comments on Clauss "Race and Character" . In: The sun. Journal for Nordic Weltanschauung , vol. 13 (1936), issue 4, pp. 154-160
• Race and rhythm . In: The sun. Journal for Nordic Weltanschauung , vol. 13 (1936), issue 9, pp. 386–397
• A word for César Franck . In: Zeitschrift für Musik , vol. 105 (1938), p. 71f.
• About Anton Bruckner's legacy. A contribution to the racial knowledge of Germanic music . Stuttgart 1939
• Anton Reicha . The German teacher Caesar Francks in Paris . In: Die Musik , Vol. 33 (1940/41), pp. 295–297
• Caesar Franck. A German musician in Paris . Heimat-Verlag, Aachen 1942

literature

• Hans Joachim Moser : Reinhold Zimmermann (obituary). In: Musica , vol. 10, issue 6, June 1956, p. 412 f.
• Fred K. Prieberg : Music in the Nazi State , Frankfurt am Main 1982, p. 126 ( books.google.de )
• Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich. Bio-bibliographical manual . Berlin 2006, p. 497 f. ( books.google.de )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann a. a. (Ed.): History of science in the Rhineland with special consideration of spatial concepts . Kassel 2008, p. 154 ( books.google.de )
2. ↑ See Theodor Heuss , esteemed Mr. Federal President! The correspondence with the population 1949–1959 , ed. by Wolfram Werner. Berlin 2010, p. 184, books.google.de
3. ^ Folder for Beethoven letters from Anton Schindler's estate