Günter Discher

Günter Discher (20 March 1925 – 9 September 2012) was a swing music lover and gramophone record-collector, and was called "the oldest jazz-DJ in Germany".

[2] The Nazi "Reichskulturkammer ("Reich Chamber of Culture") proscribed swing music as "un-German" and "degenerate".

The soldier sent the sought-after records to Germany, labelled as "Heerespost" (army mail), and therefore could cross the border without being opened by customs.

[5] After the war Discher stayed in Hamburg and became a well-known swing music expert.

For the "Günter Discher Edition", many well-known, but also lesser-known and rare pieces of music from his collection were sound restored and published.