- Born
- Died
- Karl Hammes was born on March 25, 1896 in Zell (Mosel), Germany. He was an actor, known for Königswalzer (1935) and Spanisches Intermezzo (1929). He died on September 10, 1939 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- After the war he chose a complete other direction for his professional life and he joined the academy of music in Cologne. Subsequent to this education followed appearances as a singer at a opera in Berlin and in 1927 he experienced his first huge success with the play "Parsifal" at the Bayreuther Festspiele.
- He joined the Berlin opera in 1935 and became the title "Kammersänger" at the same time.
- His fate was the war. He became a successful pilot at the air force in 1916 in WW 1 and got decorated and awarded the rank of a major. When the second World war began at 1.IX.1939, he was as a pilot part in the attack on Poland again.
- In his private life Karl Hammes was a passionate sportsman. He was a member of a rowing club and as a golf player he was part of the German national team.
- He left only a handful of recordings, but his fine baritone voice is highly estimated by collectors.
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