Alfred Hetschko

Alfred Paul Hetschko (24 August 1898 – 18 April 1967) was an Austro-German music educator, Kapellmeister and composer, who rendered outstanding services to men's choir. From 1952 to 1955, he was director of the .

Life Austrian-Silesian origins and musical studies Hetschko was born in the Austrian Silesia town of Bielitz, which was located on the Galician border. After primary school (1904–1909), he attended the K. K. Emperor Franz Joseph State Grammar School in the Moravian district town of Ostrava. After passing his school-leaving examination (Matura) in 1916 at the Protestant in Bielitz, he served in the First World War as a soldier in the Österreichisches Heer.

Afterwards he was first an elementary school teacher in Kunzendorf near Bielsko. From 1921 to 1923, he taught at the Protestant boys' school at Bielitz in the autonomous Voivodeship of Silesia. His academic teachers included in music history,

Professional stations in areas with a German minority Music teacher and choirmaster in Lemberg and Graudenz (1922-1932) From 1922 he taught at the German Realgymnasium in Lemberg (Lwiw) in the Lwów Voivodeship. Hetschko, who had passed his Kapellmeister examination at the Lviv Academy of Music,

He then became a music teacher in Grudziądz at the Goethe School. From 1924 to 1932, Hetschko was music director and organist as well as conductor of the stage orchestra at the community theatre "Deutsche Bühne Graudenz", It was a replica of the stage in Bydgoszcz and was supported by the Berlin "Verein heimattreuer Graudenzer". At the age of 27 he was elected the first of the Bund deutscher Gesangsvereine Posen-Pommerellen. with which he gave public concerts. He also maintained a close exchange with his Polish colleagues, making music with the Graudenz Conservatory Director Ignaci Tomaszewski. He was then a teacher at the German school in Košice, where he held the post of director in 1933/34. During this period, according to Rudolf Weidig, he openly opposed the aggressively nationalist politics of the Carpathian German Party and its sister party, the Carpathian German Party (KdP). In his estimation, the KdP suffered defeat in the 1937 Kashubian municipal election because of Hetschko's activities. The National Socialists had later accused and harassed him for that attitude and for other offences. On 1 July 1941 (membership number 8,956,345) and belonged to the Česká Třebová (Reichsgau Sudetenland). He was also a member of the National Socialist Teachers League. From 1942 to 1945, Hetschko taught at the secondary school and teacher training college in Dvůr Králové nad Labem in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Management functions in higher education (from 1952) He was given the directorship of the Halle Academy of Music in succession to with effect from 1 April 1952. During this time he was a promoter of Neue Musik in Halle. However, his commitment to school music led to the discontinuation of teaching at the conservatoire. and deputy chairman of the Halle district executive committee of the Gesellschaft zur Verbreitung wissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse. Hetschko was also a board member of the in Halle. He was also a bearer of the Fritz Heckert Medaille of the Free German Trade Union Federation.

Publications Antonín Dvořák. [Biografie]. . (Vol. 253). Reclam, Leipzig, 1965.