Werner Danckert

Born in Erfurt, Danckert trained as a concert pianist after graduating from high school in 1917. He studied musicology with the subsidiary subjects philosophy and physics. In 1923 he received his doctorate in Erlangen (summa cum laude); the habilitation followed at the University of Jena in 1926.

In 1937 Danckert became a member of the NSDAP and professor at the Musikhochschule Weimar.^[1] Danckert became a member of the Hauptstelle Musik at the Amt Rosenberg. At the Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf (1938).^[2] Danckert gave a lecture on Volkstum, Stammesart, Rasse im Lichte der Volkstumsforschung.^[1] In 1939 he published the book Die ältesten Spuren germanischer Volksmusik.^[1] In 1943 he was given a chair in Graz and an apl. professorship in Berlin as successor of Herbert Birtner [de].^[1]

After the end of the Second World War he did not return to any university,^[1] but published further books on folk music and other musical topics.

Danckert died in Krefeld at age 69.