Johann Dændler

Recording engineer. Born 1911 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He started with Skandinavisk Grammophon A/S in 1933, working with A&R concentrating in jazz just before Columbia was integrated. Dændler was sent to England to learn how to make recordings. He learned to record the HMV way and to record the Columbia way. In January 1937 he recorded together with Douglas Larter, the travelling recording expert for several years. Johann Dændler recorded everything on HMV, Columbia, Odeon, Imperial and all the pre war Schou/Tono labels from 1937 to 1945. He did a major recording tour to Estonia in May/June 1939 assisted by Mr Larter. In the late summer of 1939 he assisted his Swedish colleague doing a similar tour to Finland.