Gustav Hermann Unger

Gustav Hermann Unger (26 October 1886 – 31 December 1958 ) was a German composer.

Life Born in Kamenz, Unger was the son of the travelling theatre director Fritz Unger (1858-1922) and his wife Maria née Stein. Borna-Leipzig 1911.

In 1913 Unger came to Cologne as editor of the Rheinische Musik- und Theater-Zeitung. After the National Socialists seized power, the director of the university Walter Braunfels was dismissed. The director of the music school Hermann Abendroth was also expelled from his office a year later. In 1935 Martin Karl Hasse took over the management of the university. Unger was appointed director of the Rheinische Musikschule and Hasse's deputy.

Although Unger was still a journalist polemicising against the accumulation of offices and mismanagement in Cologne before 1933, he accepted 16 offices close to the system after the seizure of power.