Karl Theophil Stengel (12 July 1905 – 9 October 1995) was a German chorus master, composer and Nazi musicologist, notable for his co-authoring of the antisemitic ''
Encyclopedia of Jews in Music
The ''Encyclopedia of Jews in Music'' (''Lexikon der Juden in der Musik'') was a Nazi-sponsored encyclopedia first published in Germany in 1940, which listed people involved in the music industry who were defined under Nazi racial laws as 'Jewish' ...
''. He was born in Bodersweier,
Kehl
Kehl (; gsw, label= Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic, Kaal) is a town in southwestern Germany in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg. It is on the river Rhine, directly opposite the French city of Strasbourg, with which it shares some munic ...
and died in
Brühl (Baden)
Brühl () is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The former fishing village along the Rhine has become a satellite of a growing Mannheim. Many of the residen ...
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1905 births
1995 deaths
People from Kehl
20th-century German composers
German male writers
20th-century German musicologists
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