Franz Konwitschny (14 August 1901, Fulnek, Moravia – 28 July 1962, Belgrade) was a German conductor and violist of Moravian descent.

Konwitschny first joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) on July 1, 1923 in Fulnek (membership number 2,756).

[5] On the other hand, in November of the same year he conducted the opera Matthias the Painter by the ostracized composer Paul Hindemith in a subscription concert.

[8] In the late war years 1943–1944 he was chief conductor of the orchestra in Ludwigshafen, today the Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic.

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