Willi Kaufmann

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The Volkspolizei Orchestra under the direction of Willi Kaufmann plays to dance (1954)

Willi Kaufmann (born September 7, 1908 , † 1978 ) was a German composer and music inspector for the German People's Police .

Life

Kaufmann attended the Dresden Conservatory . From April 1937 to October 1939 he began studying music as a master at the State University of Music in Berlin and was appointed music master. As head of the music corps of the 52nd Rifle Regiment , Kaufmann took part in Operation Barbarossa and was captured in 1941 near the town of Kopys in Belarus . Until 1947 he was a Soviet prisoner of war. While in captivity, he founded music orchestras in several Soviet prisoner-of-war camps. As the leader of a camp orchestra, he musically provided the foundation meeting of the National Committee for Free Germany .

The Colonel Music Master of the GDR People's Police trained a Chinese army music train in Beijing at the end of 1954 , for which he was awarded the medal "Hero of the Chinese People's Liberation Army".

On October 1, 1948, the orchestra of the German People's Police was founded in Berlin as the first uniformed wind orchestra after the end of World War II . Music director Willi Kaufmann became chief conductor and also music inspector for the German People's Police. In April 1958 the name was changed to the Central Orchestra of the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR. In 1960 he gave up the leadership, but kept the post of music in-chief of the People's Police. His successor was Wolfgang Arendt and until 1990 Helmut Sommer.

Kaufmann was a member of the SED . Within the People's Police, he held the rank of colonel. In 1958 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Works

Works for wind orchestra

  • Antifa March No. 3
  • The Little Trumpeter (March)
  • The readiness is ready (T .: Max Zimmering )
  • Young People's Police (March)
  • March of the fighting groups of the working class (T .: Max Zimmering)
  • Presentation march of the German People's Police
  • People's police in front (Parade March No. 1 of the German People's Police)
  • Our People's Police (March)
  • Our People's Police Readiness (March)

literature

  • Gabriele Baumgartner, Dieter Hebig (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch der SBZ / DDR. 1945–1990. Volume 1: Abendroth – Lyr. KG Saur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-598-11176-2 , p. 380.
  • Michael Schramm (Ed.): Military Music in Discourse. A series of publications by the military music service of the Bundeswehr. Volume 5: Music and State - Military Music of the GDR. Documentation volume for the symposium of the same name from September 28 to 30, 2009 in Bonn. Bonn 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Willi Kaufmann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1955, pp. 48 ( Online - July 6, 1955 ).
personal data
SURNAME Kaufmann, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and orchestra leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1908
DATE OF DEATH 1978