Ernst-Lothar von Knorr

In the same year he became Concert master with the orchestra of the Diaghilev Ballet in Munich, in 1924 followed the establishment and direction of the Volks- und Jugendmusikschule-Süd in Berlin.

[4] Knorr also appointed some musicians as teachers at the army music schools, exempting them from active military service.

[2] As late as 1944 von Knorr began building up the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen [de], where he was also director.

In 1945 he was removed from his post as a senior civil servant, but in 1948 he received a certificate stating that he had only been "slightly [Nazi] burdened" and was able to continue his work.

From 1955 he was also military music advisor to Theodor Blank, the first Minister of Defence of the Federal Republic of Germany,[2] In 1956, his wife Elise died after a long illness.