Die Deutschmeister (1955 movie) - How the Deutschmeister March came about [Eng Sub]

The Deutschmeister Regimental March (sometimes also referred to as the Deutschmeister March) is a military march composed in 1893 and is the best-known composition by the Austrian Wilhelm August Jurek. The march takes its name from the K.u.k. Infanterie-Regiment Hoch- und Deutschmeister Nr. 4, to which Jurek belonged at the time the march was composed. The legend that Jurek had the idea for the Deutschmeister regimental march while stamping is by no means certain, but it is a persistent one. According to a report by a Captain from the Hoch- und Deutschmeister regiment, Corporal Jurek stamped the leave slips for the soldiers of his regiment and, in time with the boom-boom of the stamping process, he always rhythmically added the line "Mir san vom k. und k. Infanterie-Regiment Hoch- und Deutschmeister Nummero Vier" until the melody for the trio of the march was finally created.