Herms Niel
Herms Niel in Reichsarbeitsdienst uniform
Birth name	Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann Nielebock
Born	( 1888-04-17 ) 17 April 1888 Nielebock , Province of Saxony , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
Died	16 July 1954 (1954-07-16) (aged 66) Lingen , Lower Saxony , West Germany
Allegiance	German Empire (1906?1918)   Weimar Republic (until 1933)   Nazi Germany (until 1945)   West Germany (until death)

Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann Nielebock (17 April 1888 ? 16 July 1954), ^[1] known as Herms Niel , was a German composer of military songs and marches. ^[2]

Biography [ edit ]

Upon finishing school in 1902, Niel completed his apprenticeship with the Genthin choirmaster Adolf Buchner. In October 1906, he joined the Imperial German Army and was admitted as a trombonist and oboist in the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Guard ( 1. Garderegiment zu Fuss ) in Potsdam . During the First World War , he was bandmaster of the 423rd German Infantry Regiment. In 1919, he was demobilized and worked as an official in the administration until 1927. That same year, he co-founded in Potsdam the Ritterschaftsorchester (the Knights' Orchestra), where he was composer and lyricist.

After the Nazis seized power , Niel, in 1933, ^[2] joined their party as member 2,171,788. ^[3] He became a Sturmabteilung troop leader, before receiving a promotion to band leader of the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) training establishment in Potsdam. ^[2]

During the period of National Socialism , he dedicated himself to composing marches and songs, which were popularized by the NSDAP and widely distributed on all fronts of the Second World War . At the Nazi party rallies in Nuremberg he was the conductor of all RAD music bands. ^[4]

Niel also invented and designed a fanfare trumpet , known as the Herms Niel-Doppelfanfare , in E and B flat, which was manufactured in 1938 by Ernst Hess Nachf, an accordion factory in Klingenthal . ^[2]

In 1941 he composed the score Sieg Heil Viktoria for the Waffen-SS . ^[5]

During the postwar era , Niel lived in Lingen , where he died in 1954. ^[3]

Works [ edit ]

• "Adlerlied"
• "Antje, mein blondes Kind"
• "Das Engellandlied" (1939), lyrics: Hermann Lons )
• "Die ganze Kompanie"
• "Du Schonste von Stadtel, schwarzbraunes Madel"
• "Es blitzen die stahlernen Schwingen"
• " Erika (Auf der Heide bluht ein kleines Blumelein)" (1938)
• "Es geht ums Vaterland"
• "Es ist so schon, Soldat zu sein, Rosemarie "
• " Es war ein Edelweiß "
• "Edelweißmarsch"
• "Fallschirmjagerlied"
• "Fliegerkuss"
• "Fruhmorgens singt die Amsel"
• "Gerda ? Ursula ? Marie"
• "Hannelore Marschlied"
• "Heut´ sind wir wieder unter uns"
• "Heut’ stechen wir ins blaue Meer"
• "Heute muß ich scheiden"
• "Im Osten pfeift der Wind"
• "In der Heimat steh’n auf Posten"
• "Jawoll, das stimmt, jawoll"
• "Kamerad, wir marschieren gen Westen"
• "Liebchen ade (Annemarie-Polka)" (1934)
• "Liebling, wenn ich traurig bin…"
• "Marie - Mara - Maruschkaka!"
• "Matrosenlied"
• "Mein Bismarckland"
• "Mit Mercedes Benz voran"
• "Rosalinde"
• "Rosemarie (Rosemarie, ich lieb' dich gar so sehr)"
• "Ruck Zuck"
• "Sieg Heil Viktoria"
• "Stuka uber Afrika"
• "Unsere Flagge"
• "Veronika - Marie"
• "Waltraut ist ein schones Madchen"
• "Wenn die Sonne scheint, Annemarie (Die Landpartie)"
• "Tschingta, Tschingta, Bummtara"

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Brief biography of Herms Niel (in German)
• Herms Niel in postcards , University of Osnabruck (in German)
• List of songs at Deutscheslied.com (in German)