After the repeal of Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Laws, numerous social democratic and trade union Vereins were founded.
It pursued the goal of practising music and folk culture and bringing it to the working classes[1] This was mainly done through the artistic decoration of festivals.
"Members in state, public and municipal service" were induced to leave the choir, which was accused of having "marxist Attitude"[1] were charged with resigning, so that "any financial basis for the continuation of the association was lacking".
From 2000 to 2013, Julian Christoph Tölle, lecturer at the Faculty of Education at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, has been the director of the Hans Sachs Choir.
In February 2014, the general meeting of the Hans Sachs Choir elected Guido Johannes Rumstadt[5] as the new artistic director.
The provisional direction of the choir in the first half of the year was taken over by Marco Mulzer – the previous assistant to Julian Tölle.
Rumstadt will make his debut with the Hans Sachs Choir by rehearsing for the Klassik Open Air of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra on 9 August in the Luitpoldhain.