Composer and pianist, born in Posen (Prussia, today Poznan/Poland), died in Olching (Upper Bavaria). Together with his family he settled down in 1900 in Hamburg. He got private teaching with the pianist Emil Krause. Since 1028 up to his retirement he was program director of the broadcasting station Hamburg. He composed music for films and for theatre plays, operas for broadcasting, chamber music. (Rainer Stelle)