From 1956 to 1963, he was head of the music department at the Institute for Teacher Education [de] in Weißenfels.
From 1967 to 1995 he was head of the Conservatory Georg Philipp Telemann [de], where he taught music theory, practical school play and viola.
At the music school, he set up a secretariat for the "Georg Philipp Telemann" working group.
In 1978, he was involved in setting up the Magdeburg branch of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.
From 1990 onwards, he was a lecturer at the Institute of Music at the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.