Effective period / Period of releases: 1961 - 2002

German church musician, organist, cantor and conductor.

As the regional church music director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony (1948-1960), he founded the Saxon State Church Music School in 1949, the today's Dresden University of Church Music. He became director this school (sometimes mentioned as Dresden School of Church Music).
He took office as cantor (Kreuzkantor) at the Kreuzkirche, Dresden from 1971 to 1991 where he led the Dresdner Kreuzchor (* 19 August 1913 in Aue, Germany; † 13 January 1998 in Dresden, Germany).