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{{short description|German composer}}
[[File:Carl Albert Hermann Teike.png|thumb|Carl Teike.]]

'''Carl Albert Hermann Teike''' (5 February 1864 &ndash; 28 May 1922) was a German [[composer]] who wrote over 100 [[military band|military]] [[march (music)|marches]] and twenty concert works.

==Biography==
Born the son of a [[blacksmith]] in [[Stettin-Altdamm]], [[Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)|Pomerania]], Teike was the fourth of 14 children in his family. He began studying music when he was 14, playing a variety of instruments. When he was 19, he joined the army of [[Württemberg]] as a musician in the 123rd König Karls Regiment. He was stationed in the [[Swabia]]n city [[Ulm]], where he played [[French horn]] and percussion for the orchestras of local theaters.

Teike began writing military marches, including one in 1889 that would eventually be named ''[[Alte Kameraden]]'' ("Old Comrades"). Upon his bandmaster's disapproval of that composition, Teike resigned from the army. A publisher purchased the song from him for twenty [[German gold mark|German Goldmark]]. ''Alte Kameraden'' later became one of the most popular marches in the world.

Teike became a [[police officer]] in Ulm and married his landlord's daughter. They moved to [[Potsdam]] in [[Brandenburg]] in 1895, where he continued work as a police officer until illness led to his resignation in 1908. He eventually began working as a postal employee in [[Landsberg an der Warthe]] in [[East Brandenburg]], where he died in 1922.
[[File:Potsdam, Plaque for Carl Teike (20201230 140750 HDR).jpg|thumb|Plaque commemorating Carl Teike in Potsdam, Germany]]
Teike is commemorated in Potsdam with a plaque on the exterior of the Mercure Hotel.

==External links==
*{{IMSLP|id=Teike, Carl}}
*{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060618072719/http://marchdb.net/composers/show/4 List of Marches by Carl Teike]}}
*{{youTube|M6S1t7ntlg}} "The Graf Zeppelin March"
*[http://www.deutsche-lieder-online.de/Mp3/alte-kameraden.mp3 "Alte Kameraden" by Carl Teike]

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[[Category:1864 births]]
[[Category:1922 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Szczecin]]
[[Category:Musicians from the Province of Pomerania]]
[[Category:German composers]]
[[Category:German police officers]]
[[Category:Military music composers]]
[[Category:19th-century German musicians]]


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