Otto Wartisch

Otto Alexander Hermann Wartisch (18 November 1893 – 29 April 1969) was a German composer, conductor, and cultural figure in Nazi Germany.

[1] Born in Magdeburg, Wartisch received his doctorate from Erlangen with a dissertation titled Studien zur Harmonik des musikalischen Impressionismus in 1928, which was published in 1930.

[3] After the Nazi seizure of power, he succeeded Carl Corbach as SA-Standartenführer from 1934 to 1939, and acted as Kapellmeister of the Hofkapelle and the conductors of the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen.

Wartisch dedicated the composition Deutsche Rhapsodie to Julius Streicher, the publisher of the anti-Semitic diatribe Der Stürmer.

He then became a concert conductor in Munich, and in 1951 his work Scharlott fährt gen Himmel was premiered in Bremen.