Walther Hensel

From 1925 to 1927 he directed the youth music school Dortmund, from 1930 he taught at the Stuttgart Volkshochschule.

In 1938 he took the "Anschluss des Sudetenlandes"- the choice of words of the Walther-Hensel-Society in Winnenden, Swabia, as an occasion to return to his homeland.

In 1941 the Faculty of Philosophy of the German University in Prague awarded him the Joseph-Freiherr-von-Eichendorff-Preis [de].

At the same time he received a state commission to research German and Slavic folk songs in the Bohemian-Moravian region.

Hensel counted among Fritz Jöde and Hans Breuer (editor of the Zupfgeigenhansl) to the leading figures of the youth music movement.