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German character actor and theatrical director, on stage from 1920. Between 1922 and 1933, he was engaged at theatres in Gera, Weimar and Hanover. Between 1933 and 1944, he was active in leading roles at the Staatstheater Berlin under the direction of Gustav Gründgens. He later taught acting at the Max-Reinhardt school in Berlin. On screen, he played many small supporting roles as physicians, senior public servants, judges and aristocrats.

He began his professional stage career in 1920 in Mühlhausen. It followed other stations before he was engaged by Gustaf Gründgens at the Staatstheater Berln in 1934 where he remained till 1944.

In Meiringen he completed a apprenticeship at the mortgage bank, beside it he already appeared as an extra at the Hoftheater.