Famous People with Name Erhard

Erhard Karkoschka            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Erhard Karkoschka: is a German composer, scholar and conductor. Karkoschka (frequently misspelled in English as Karkoshka) was born in the German linguistic enclave of Moravská Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, and subsequent to World War II became a violinist for the Bayreuth Symphony Orchestra, whereupon he studied composition, musicology and conducting at the Musikhochschule in Stuttgart and the University of Tübingen, Germany. His doctoral thesis was an analysis of the compositional techniques in the early works of Anton Webern.

Erhard Weiß            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Erhard Weiß: was a German diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he finished fourth in the 10 metre platform event and fifth in the 3 metre springboard competition.

Erhard Riedrich            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Erhard Riedrich: is an East German sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. He finished sixth in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Erhard Geißler            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Erhard Geißler: is a German biologist and geneticist. Geißler was a professor for genetics at the University of Rostock. Between 1965 and 1971 he was dean of the university. Subsequently he was head of department at the Zentralinstitut für Molekularbiologie of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin, from 1992 till 2000 at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine. Furthermore he has been working for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute since 1983.[1]

Erhard Mauersberger            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Erhard Mauersberger: was a German choral conductor, conducting the Thomanerchor as the fourteenth Thomaskantor since Johann Sebastian Bach. He was also an academic and a composer. In 1925 he became director of the Aachener Bachverein, in 1928 a teacher at the Musikhochschule Mainz and a cantor at the Christuskirche Mainz. From 1930 he was cantor at the Georgenkirche in Eisenach. In 1932 he started teaching at the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar, appointed Professor for choral conducting in 1946. Since 1950 he directed the Thüringer Kirchenmusikhochschule in Eisenach.