- Hans Carste was born on September 5, 1909 in Frankenthal, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was a composer, known for Roman einer Nacht (1933), Variety (1935) and Der schweigende Engel (1954). He died on May 11, 1971 in Bad Wiessee, Bavaria, Germany.
- Hans Carste was enlisted in 1942 and had to go to the east front. There he became seriously wounded and came into Russian imprisonment where he continued to compose music.
- In 1957 he became president of BIEM in Paris.
- He first worked at the Vienna Opera, it followed an engagement an the Opera of Breslau before he went to Berlin to start his great career.
- In 1937 when Ludwig Rüth, the Jewish Band Leader emigrated to South Africa, Hans Carste took up the baton. For some time the Orchestra was still known as the Ludwig (Lewis) Rüth Orchester but acknowledged that Carste was the conductor. Within a short time it became known as the Hans Carste Orchester.
- The film composer Hans Carste first studied political and economic science from 1927 before he turned towards the music and went to the Vienna Music Academy.
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