page_title: Theodor Krüger
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Theodor Krüger / Life
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Am 31. März 2019 eröffnete der Pastor i.R. Michael Stier mit einer Rede die Ausstellung "Serie ROT" der Fotokünstlerin Ilse Paul im Kanzleicafé in Celle. Diese Fotografie zeigt das Innenfutter des mit den Initialen T K für den Musiker Theodor Krüger gekennzeichneten Zylinders aus der Hutfabrik des Kürschnermeisters Adolf Höper in Celle, Großer Plan 29. Die Künstlerin, eine Enkelin von Theodor Krüger, trägt diesen Zylinder ihres Großvaters bei besonderen Anlässen als ihr Markenzeichen. Der Hutboden trägt das Emblem für die gekrönte Marke Ideal als gesetzlich geschützes Warenzeichen mit eingetragener Nummer ...
context_page_description: Theodor Krüger was a German music educator, choral conductor, pianist, composer and writer, especially on historical flutes.
context_section_description: Born in Celle, Province of Hanover, Krüger grew up in Celle. Born at the time of the German Empire, Krüger received his first music lessons at the age of 9 from the pianist and flutist Friedrich Ferdinand Theodor Bach, who served in the Celle 2. Hannoversches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 77 as a musician in martial music. During his training as a pianist at the "Louis-Krohn-Musikschule" in Braunschweig he already wrote his first compositions. In 1910 he returned to Celle, where he continued his studies in piano and theory with Fritz Reichert and Heinrich Lutter, with whom he founded the Verein der Musikfreunde Celle. He acquired his qualification as a choir conductor by studying singing with the concert and oratorio singer Heinrich Kühlborn.
  Also in 1910, during the shooting festival in Celle, Krüger met his future wife Marie Suerburg (18 May 1891 in Celle - 2 February 1983 in Metzingen); the two married on 14 August 1914; the couple had two sons: Walter (21 August 1911 in Celle, killed in action 2 October 1941 in Russia) and Hans (4 April 1927 in Celle - 15 July 1986 in Metzingen).
  During the First World War he served as a soldier, probably in a chapel, with an unknown place of assignment.
  In 1923 he founded the men's double quartet "The Eight". Krüger temporarily took over the direction of the larger Celle male choirs: "Thalia", "Euterpe" and at the time of National Socialism also the male choir "Cellensia", which was a member of the Deutscher Sängerbund. Krüger also became active in other musical areas: He took over the direction of the "1st Celler accordion club of 1936" on 1 February 1937.
  In his house Am Heiligen Kreuz 27 in Celle old town, he taught piano, recorder and music theory. Among his students was Hermann Alexander Moeck.
  Krüger researched and taught about historical musicology, especially woodwind- and string instruments.
  After the Second World War Krüger conducted among others the mixed choir Wathlingen and the "Volkschor Burgdorf".
  Krüger died shortly before his 76th birthday. His burial place is situated in the cemetery of Celle.
caption: Inner lining of one of the opera hats used by the granddaughter Ilse Paul made by Adolf Höper [de] with the initials T K
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