Hugo Rüdel
His father Johann Friedrich August Rüdel (1816-1887) ran a brickworks and was the town conductor of Havelberg.
Hugo was the youngest of five children; his mother was Pauline Amalia Albertine, née Knüppelholz (1831-1891).
From 1899 to 1910, he was a teacher (professor from 1908) for French horn at the Hochschule für Musik zu Berlin.
From 1909 to 1933 he was conductor of the Staats- und Domchor Berlin [de], with which he undertook numerous journeys abroad.
Finally still on 21 March 1933 he was involved with the Staats- und Domchor in the organization of the Day of Potsdam, where the newly elected Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler placed himself with public appeal in a Prussian national-conservative tradition.
Picture from Hugo Rüdel's obituary
Bronze bust of Hugo Rüdel in the
Royal Music Institute of Berlin
for
church music
of the
Universität der Künste Berlin
Hugo Rüdel at a rehearsal of the
Staats- und Domchor
in the
Berliner Dom
, 1932
Road sign on the Hugo-Rüdel-Straße in Bayreuth.