The Concert Band of the German Armed Forces was deployed in Rheinbach in 1957. By November of the same year the band had performed ceremonial duties in the still young Federal Republic of Germany. With the guards battalion of the Federal Department of Defense the band still does honor services such as official receptions or accreditations of ambassadors. In 1959, the formerly named Central Band...
Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Scheibling was born in 1969 in Wipperfürth. He received his first musical training at the age of 8 on the piano and trombone. In 1989 he joined the military music service of the Bundeswehr and, as part of his music officer training, began studying to be a conductor at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf. He studied conducting with Prof. Wolfgang Trommer,...