 He counted this as one of his greatest successes, that despite being 48 years old, he was selected from among seventeen other applicants, with an age-rebate and a sample material doubled by himself.He played here from February 1967 to September 1987.From 1982 onwards, in addition to his position in the philharmonics, he was also a teacher and later department head at the Municipal School of Music in Frankenthal, where after finishing his orchestral career, he could continue teaching for some time with special ministerial allowance.