Harald Ernst Rohlig, Musician, educator. Avocations: electric trains, gardening.
M C. Recipient 1st prize in composition NAFOM, 1968. Member Heinrich Schutz Society, Bach Society.
Background
The son of a Methodist clergyman who opposed Hitler"s regime, Rohlig was forced to join the Hitler Youth at age of 10 when his family"s food and basic necessities were restricted. His father was later incarcerated at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Education
After his release from the prison camp in 1948, Rohlig returned to his musical studies. A musical prodigy who was composing and concertizing before he was in his teens, Rohlig studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and earned his doctorate in pipe organ design from Osnabruck Conservatory.
Career
He died on October 25, 2014 in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1943, Rohlig was drafted into the Luftwaffe. Before World World War II ended he was captured by American soldiers, from whom he received good treatment, and spent three years in a French prison camp.
Education He moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 to take a faculty position at Huntingdon College.
Rohlig taught at Huntingdon for more than fifty years, where he was awarded every teaching honor the college grants.
Achievements
Membership
Member Heinrich Schutz Society, Bach Society.
Interests
Electric trains, gardening.
Connections
Married Ingeborg L. Lieverz, February 19, 1953. Children: Detlev-Harald, Deborah-Anne.