Hermann Rauhe

The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Hamburg. Employment is recorded with University of Hamburg. Distinctions recorded are Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, German National Prize and Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Hamburg).

Rauhe was born in Wanna/Niederelbe. After he passed the Abitur at the Amandus-Abendroth-Gymnasium in Cuxhaven in 1949, he studied music and music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg as well as musicology and literary criticism, pedagogy, philosophy, sociology, theology and phonetics at the University of Hamburg from 1951 to 1959. In 1955 he passed the First State Examination for the teaching profession at grammar schools with the combined subject music and German teaching. In 1959 he passed the Second State Examination and then the doctorate of philosophy (musicology).

In 1960 Rauhe became an assistant, in 1963 a lecturer at the University of Hamburg and since 1965 he has been a professor of musicology and music education at the Hamburg University of Music. In 1970 he returned to the University of Hamburg as Ordinarius for Educational Science with a focus on Music Pedagogy. From 1978 to 2004 Rauhe was President of the Hamburg University of Music and Drama, and from 1980 to 1982 also Chairman of the Rectors' Conference of the Universities of Music in the Federal Republic of Germany. • Illustration — Signature of Hermann Rauhe

Rauhe made special efforts to develop new methods of Music therapy Impact research. For example, through the targeted use of music in the neurological rehabilitation of stroke and Parkinson patients at the Asklepios Klinikum Harburg (together with the neurologist Robert-Charles Behrend). For this reason, Rauhe works in the German Society for Preventive Medicine and Prevention Management e.V.. Together with its president Gerd Schnack, Rauhe developed a special method of stress reduction, the so-called repetitive meditation training. • Illustration — Bronze bust of Hermann Rauhe He also worked in the field of professional research and development ("Music professions in transition").