Carl Teike

Carl Albert Hermann Teike (5 February 1864 – 28 May 1922) was a German composer who wrote over 100 military marches and twenty concert works.

He was stationed in the Swabian city Ulm, where he played French horn and percussion for the orchestras of local theaters.

Teike began writing military marches, including one in 1889 that would eventually be named Alte Kameraden ("Old Comrades").

They moved to Potsdam in Brandenburg in 1895, where he continued work as a police officer until illness led to his resignation in 1908.

He eventually began working as a postal employee in Landsberg an der Warthe in East Brandenburg, where he died in 1922.