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Herms Niel, real name Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann Nielebock (17 April 1888 in Nielebock — 16 July 1954 in Lingen), was a German composer of military songs and marches.

Biography

Upon finishing school in 1902, Niel completed his apprenticeship with the Genthin choirmaster Adolf Büchner. In October 1906 he was admitted as a trombonist and oboist in the 1st Regiment of the Guard in Potsdam. During the First World War, he was bandmaster of the 423rd German Infantry Regiment. In 1918, after the war, he retired from the army and worked as an official in the administration until 1927. That same year, he co-founded in Potsdam the Ritterschaftsorchester, where he worked as a composer and lyricist.

With the seizure of power by the Nazis, on 1 May 1933 Niel joined the Nazi Party as member 2,171,788. During the period of National Socialism, he became a director of music in the Reichsarbeitsdienst. He dedicated himself to composing marches and songs, which were popularized by the NSDAP and widely distributed on all fronts of the Second World War.

During the postwar era, Niel lived in Lingen (Ems), where he died in 1954.

Works

• Adlerlied
• Antje, mein blondes Kind
• Das Engellandlied (1939, lyrics: Hermann Löns)
• Die ganze Kompanie
• Du Schönste von Städtel, schwarzbraunes Mädel
• Es blitzen die stählernen Schwingen
• Erika (Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein) (in the 1930s)
• Es geht ums Vaterland
• Es ist so schön, Soldat zu sein, Rosemarie
• Edelweiß-Marsch
• Fallschirmjägerlied
• Fliegerkuss
• Frühmorgens singt die Amsel
• Gerda – Ursula – Marie
• Hannelore Marschlied
• Heut´ sind wir wieder unter uns
• Heut’ stechen wir ins blaue Meer
• Heute muß ich scheiden
• Im Osten pfeift der Wind
• In der Heimat steh’n auf Posten
• Jawoll, das stimmt, jawoll
• Kamerad, wir marschieren gen Westen
• Liebchen adé (Annemarie-Polka, 1934)
• Liebling, wenn ich traurig bin…
• Marie-Mara-Maruschkaka!
• Matrosenlied
• Mein Bismarckland
• Mit Mercedes Benz voran
• Rosalinde
• Rosemarie (Rosemarie, ich lieb' dich gar so sehr)
• Ruck Zuck
• Stuka über Afrika
• Unsere Flagge
• Veronika-Marie
• Waltraut ist ein schönes Mädchen
• Wenn die Sonne scheint, Annemarie (Die Landpartie)