Theodor Ludwig Karl Krieghoff

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Theodor Krieghoff (born November 2, 1879 in Ufhoven ; † February 22, 1946 there ) was a German musician and composer.

Dozens of pieces of music, such as the Dr. Eckener March , the Brummer March , Long live life! , Frühlingshoffen and the song Bremerhob'n Wesermünd ', which was premiered by the Shanty Choir Loxstedt after 72 years at Sail 2010 in Bremerhaven , Ahoi! have been written and composed by him.

Th. Krieghoff composing on the piano
Postcard from Krieghoff dated April 23, 1903 from Kobe from SMS Hansa

Life

Theodor Krieghoff, youngest son of the master baker Theodor Krieghoff (1839-1884) and his wife Therese, b. Körner (1847–1942) was born on November 2, 1879 in Ufhoven , Langensalza district, was baptized and raised as a Protestant. He received his first lessons in the local school. Two years later, until his confirmation, he attended elementary school in Langensalza.

At the age of fifteen he began a one-year music education with the Langensalza city band and was then employed for one season with the spa band in Bad Rothenfelde . After eight months as a French horn player with the orchestra of the Apollo Theater in Nuremberg , which was newly created in 1896 , he joined the orchestra of the Volksgarten in Bremerhaven in 1898 , the forerunner of today's Stadttheater Bremerhaven .

From his first marriage to Margaretha Kahl (1882–1920), daughter of the customs assistant Hermann Kahl and his wife Metta, b. Vollmer in Geestemünde , had a daughter. After the early death of his first wife, he was in his second marriage to Adele Leverentz (1897–1987), daughter of master boiler maker Carl Leverentz and his wife Sophie, née. Böhlken in Wesermünde , married. From this marriage came three sons and one daughter.

From the Bremerhaven City Theater Orchestra / Volksgarten he volunteered for the III. Sailor artillery department to Lehe (Bremerhaven) , was hired there in the 2nd company on October 1st, 1899 and after training was assigned to the music corps. In 1901 he applied to the sailor Artillery Detachement Kiautschou as music director and received the position. The Far Eastern Empire of China leased this area to the German Empire in 1898 . On November 18 of the same year he emigrated to Tsingtau , where he arrived on January 10, 1902. After three years in command, he returned to Germany, where he was transferred to his former unit. In his military passport it is recorded that he was on the seas for a total of 3 months and 17 days on the ships SMS Preußen , the Governor Jaeschke , the SMS Frankfurt and the SMS Hansa .

In 1907 he applied for the department drum position and was accepted. On June 16, 1901, he was appointed senior seaman , on November 18, 1901, a maate / hoboist ( Hautboist ), on September 16, 1905, a senior maate / chief hoboist and on January 27, 1910, a deputy sergeant / staff hoboist. During his service in Lehe he was stationed in the Bremen coastal area at the fortifications of the Weser estuary ( Weserforts Brinkamahof ) in Geestemünde. On June 15, 1907, he led the III. To celebrate the establishment of the attached howitzer battery. Sailors artillery department through Wremen .

He composed against the doom and gloom of the First World War : “Long live life!” His service with the III. Sailors Artillery Division ended on January 31, 1919.

After his military service he was a music teacher and, with the approval of the Reichsmusikkammer Berlin, gave private lessons on the piano, the piano and the accordion , first in Bremerhaven and then in Radebeul near Dresden . He also worked in Bremerhaven in a self-founded choir association called the Mixed Choir Th. Krieghoff .

His homely and snappy songs, such as B. the Dr. The Eckener March for the Salon Orchestra in honor of the Zeppelin designer Hugo Eckener and the Brummer March for the piano in honor of the senior ex-Vice-Admiral Ludwig von Schröder of the Marine Corps Flanders , who commanded the First World War .

Krieghoff lived in Lehe from 1905 until the mid-30s. Then the musician moved and lived in Geestemünde until he fled the bombs to Radebeul in 1943. In August 1945 he and his family fled from Radebeul, seriously ill, because they had not been issued ration cards to Ufhoven, where he died on February 22, 1946 of heart failure and open pulmonary tuberculosis.

  • Apollo Theater Nuremberg
  • Barracks of the III. Sailors Artillery Department
  • Chapel of the III. Sailors Artillery Department
  • Pin from the mixed choir Th. Krieghoff
  • Sailor Th. Krieghoff
  • Celebration on June 15, 1907 for the construction of the howitzer battery in Wremen

Works

Sheet music (publisher's print)

  • Printed by Carl Gottlieb Röder GmbH from Leipzig around 1917:
    • Long live the life!
    • Spring hopes
    • Brummer March
  • Long live the life!
    around 1917
  • Spring court
    around 1917
  • Brummer March
    around 1917
  • Pressure from the graph. Art and music printing company KO Maume from Kötzschenbroda-Zitzschewig from 1928:

Sheet music (self-printing)

  • In the old Luneschleuse
  • Farewell my love, goodbye!
  • Have sun in my heart
  • Childhood dream
  • Bi Meyerdierk is dance music
  • Trallala
  • Sweetheart! To dance!
  • Sailor's fate
  • Roses, red roses

Sheet music (handwritten - declarations of love to his hometown Ufhoven)

  • A sunny spring day in the Thuringian Forest (a waltz idyll for the dear compatriots from the Rosendorf Ufhoven)
  • Mein Sülzenberg (kindly dedicated to the singing club Ufhoven)
  • My hometown! Rose village Ufhoven

Sheet music (handwritten)

  • Bremerhob'n Wesermünd ', ahoy!
  • and 73 other pieces of music

Honors during your lifetime

Newspaper article about the shanty Bremerhob'n Wesermünd ', Ahoi! from 1938

  • Susanne Schwan: "With Steenköhl'n un Gronot". Shanty specialist digs up a lost song without a melody - Wanted: Author Th. Krieghoff . In: Nordsee-Zeitung . Bremerhaven June 27, 2009 ( digital version [JPG; accessed June 19, 2019]).
  • Susanne Schwan: Uropas notes canceled. Ingo Winters ancestor was a composer and military musician: 60 songs by Theodor Krieghoff archived . In: Nordsee-Zeitung . Bremerhaven July 29, 2009 ( digitized [JPG; accessed June 19, 2019]).
  • After 72 years, the Bremerhaven anthem will be heard again. The Loxstedt shanty choir sings a long-forgotten song of praise for the city at the Sail - performance at the harbor concert . In: Nordsee-Zeitung . Bremerhaven August 13, 2010 ( digitized [JPG; accessed June 19, 2019]).

swell

  • Arthur Parrhysius: Military musician address book for the German Reich - personnel directory of the music corps and musicians in the German mandate areas and colonies . Berlin 1905, p. 428-431 .
  • Karlheinz M. Reichert: Navy on the Lower Weser . Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1990, ISBN 3-927857-21-1 , p. 70-78 .
  • Hein Carstens: In the course of history. Pictures from then and now . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 645 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven September 2003, p. 4 ( digital copy [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on June 19, 2019]).
  • Helmut Krummel: A hundred years ago: howitzer battery was built. Defense against England - Imperial Navy never fired at enemy ships . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 664 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven April 2005, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on June 19, 2019]).
  • Ulrich Manhart: US boys are hot for Wiener Schnitzel. The Hotel Metropol in Lehe has seen turbulent times . In: Sunday journal of the Nordsee-Zeitung . October 23, 2005, p. 4-5 .
  • Peter Raap : The ruins in Speckenbütteler Park . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 687 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 2007, p. 4 ( digital version [PDF; 954 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2019]).
  • Heinz Urban: Zeppelin courier . Ed .: Zeppelin Museum Meersburg . July 2007 (24th year).
  • Peter Raap: The fortress island Brinkamahof II. Memory of a fortress island that disappeared in 2000 . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 727 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven July 2010, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on June 19, 2019]).
  • Michael Schramm, Manfred Heidler: Military Music in Discourse / Popularization and Artificialization in Military Music . Ed .: Federal Office for Defense Administration. tape 7 . Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-038787-6 , pp. 342 .
  • Helmut Krummel: The barracks hospital at the Kaiserhafen. German East Asian fighters in Bremerhaven at the beginning of the 20th century . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 795 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven March 2016, p. 2–3 ( digitized version [PDF; 1.1 MB ; accessed on August 1, 2019]).
  • Joachim Kussin: The first general German artillery roll call . A military event before the outbreak of the First World War . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 799 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven July 2016, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 2.4 MB ; accessed on June 19, 2019]).
  • Helmut Krummel: The marine swimming pool on the Geeste. In the German Empire, marines had to learn to swim . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 811 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven July 2017, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.3 MB ; accessed on June 19, 2019]).
  • Hein Carstens: The howitzer battery at Wremen. Your story in and after the First World War . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 826 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2018, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 6.5 MB ; accessed on June 19, 2019]).

literature

  • Ingo Winter: The life of a military musician, conductor, composer and music teacher from Potsdamer Straße 45 . In: Burkhard Hergesell - Geschichtswerkstatt Lehe (ed.): Stories from Lehe . Mirror of a city - historical stories of people from Hafenstrasse and the surrounding area. tape 3 . Müller Dietzen GmbH, Bremerhaven 2020, p. 150-161 (184 pp.).

Web links

Commons : Theodor Ludwig Karl Krieghoff  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sound carrier Shanty Choir Loxstedt. In: Website Shanty-Chor Loxstedt. Retrieved February 10, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Hermann Schwiebert: Volksgarten Bremerhaven. In: Website DeichSPIEGEL - the online magazine from Bremerhaven. October 6, 2014, accessed June 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b History of the City Theater. In: Website Stadttheater Bremerhaven. Retrieved January 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Long live life! on YouTube , accessed December 14, 2019.
  5. ↑ Fruehlingshoffen on YouTube , accessed December 14, 2019.
  6. ^ Brummer March on YouTube , accessed December 14, 2019.
  7. ↑ Dr. Eckener-Marsch: For piano - composed by Th. Krieghoff. In: Smithsonian Institution website. Retrieved June 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Dr. Eckener March on YouTube , accessed December 14, 2019.
  9. ↑ Bremerhob'n Wesermünd ', ahoy! on YouTube , accessed December 14, 2019.
  10. ^ Prussian Service Award Cross. In: Wikimedia Commons . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  11. ↑ Kyffhäuser war memorial. In: Wikimedia Commons . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  12. ↑ Cross of honor for combatants. In: Wikimedia Commons . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Krieghoff, Theodor Ludwig Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krieghoff, Theodor; Krieghoff, Th.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Ufhoven
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1946
Place of death Ufhoven