Otto Frickhoeffer

Otto Frickhoeffer (29 March 1892 – 9 April 1968) was a German composer and conductor. Life Born in Bad Schwalbach as the son of a medical officer, Frickhoeffer wanted to become a musician. Since the father insisted on studying medicine, Frickhoeffer enrolled at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In the summer semester of 1911 he became active in the Corps Brunsviga Munich. As he changed to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Only when he had passed the there did his parents agree to a career as a pianist. The First World War interrupted the hopeful beginning. Not fully fit for service at the Western Front, he was used during his medical training to take care of wounded transports. When the war ended, his hands were no longer suitable for playing the piano. One way out was to study musical composition and conducting. From 1918 Frickhoeffer lived in Berlin as a singing teacher and composer. Ernst Klee quotes from the Nazi reference work Das Deutsche Führerlexikon as having been involved in Frickhoeffer’s political activities with the Alldeutscher Verband and the Citizens’ Defense after the First World War and was later a member of the Nazi Party. In addition, he was h