Theophil Stengel

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Karl Theophil Stengel (born July 12, 1905 in Bodersweier , † October 9, 1995 in Brühl (Baden) ) was a German choir director, composer and National Socialist musicologist .

Life

Stengel was the son of a pastor. After studying musicology, he received his doctorate with a dissertation entitled The Development of the Piano Concerto from Liszt to the Present . He joined the NSDAP on November 6, 1931 ( membership number 738,803).

During the time of National Socialism he was a member of the Reichsmusikkammer in the student council of music education from 1935 . Initially he worked in the legal department, later he was a consultant for pedigree certificates according to the racist Nuremberg laws and thus one of the main people responsible for the professional bans.

Stengel was mainly known as a co-author of the racist lexicon of Jews in music for the "extermination of everything foreign", which he edited together with Herbert Gerigk . According to Gerigk, Stengel had done most of this.

During the Second World War stems belonged from 1941 to 1944 various units of the security troops of the military police department spare the Wehrmacht , giving priority to from 1 November 1942 to May 1943 in the Lodz ghetto was stationed. In addition, he continued to write for National Socialist music magazines, whereby a contribution from August 1942 on The Jews in Music from the magazine Die Volksmusik is significant: “Although [...] on the part of the responsible authorities over and over again on the general corrosive danger of Judaism is pointed out and it is also certain that the war that National Socialist Germany is now waging for its existence has been conjured up by world Jewry, one can sometimes observe that Jewish music has still not been completely eradicated ”.

In 1944, Stengel was a sergeant in the Feldgendarmerie (WASt) in Greece .

After the end of World War II, Stengel was briefly interned in the US in 1946. Nothing is known about its denazification . He then became a music teacher and moved to Heiligkreuzsteinach . He died in Brühl in 1995.

literature

  • Eva Weissweiler , Lilli Weissweiler: Eliminated! The Lexicon of the Jews in Music and its Murderous Consequences. Dittrich-Verlag, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2 (contains, in addition to a history of its origins and effects: pp. 181-375: Theo Stengel: Lexicon of Jews in Music. Facsimile of the Berlin 1940 edition).
  • Willem de Vries: Special staff music. Organized looting in Western Europe 1940–45. Dittrich, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-920862-18-X .
  • Josef Wulf : Music in the Third Reich. A documentation. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1966 ( ro-ro-ro-Taschenbuch 818/820).
  • Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 590.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 591.
  3. ↑ Complete quote from Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 591.
personal data
SURNAME Stengel, Theophil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stengel, Karl Theophil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodersweier
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1995
Place of death Bruehl (Baden)