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Carl Albert Hermann Teike (February 5 1864 - May 22 1922) was a German composer who wrote over 100 military marches and 20 concert works.

Born the son of a blacksmith in Stettin-Altdamm, 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 Swabian city Ulm, where he also 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 marks.

Teike became a policeman 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 passed away in 1922.

Teike's "Alte Kameraden" is the most popular march in Germany and one of the most popular in the world.

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