Pim's mention of the Wikipedia.de entry (there is none in English) was what tipped me off; it too mentions that he in 1933 was named president of the Munich Akademie der Tonkunst. I wonder if they have a plaque still hanging there in his honor? In the case of Munich it would not surprise me.

     
   Or why Trunk's music prior to 1930 should be thought superior to, or more worthy than, his later work. Had 1883 been Wagner's first year on earth and not his last would we say any work prior to Siefried Act 3 was acceptable and later works, when say he was titular Head of Musical Culture of the Third Reich, were worthless? If Wagner, in the face of Hitler's terror, had had an epipthany and become a founder member of the "White Rose" would we laud Parsifal and consign the work contemporary with his anti-Semetic writings as second-rate?
   Why is it thought that any German who joined the Nazi party in its formative years, either because he hated communism or indeed because be believed the humiliation of the 1st World War was to some extent the responsibility of the Jews, be particularly held up for vilification? I would suggest it is because this German was born at a time  and place when any obnoxious views he held were brought to fruition by an evil government.
   If Adolf Hitler been born Alan Hillier in Worthing, led Britain to a World War and carried out a thorough pogrom of eugenic "cleansing " would H.G Wells be read to-day?
Why is H G Wells read to-day? Why should not Orff's (or Trunk's) music be held in high regard if that music is of high quality?

There seem to be some cross purposes at work here. Of course one should never judge a composer's work without having heard it, but given that the composer under discussion (see Autoharp's link) was prepared to submit himself and his work to the task of glorifying the Nazi party, to an extent which Strauss or Orff or even Egk were clearly not prepared to stoop to, and which Wagner himself would no doubt have disdained as a philistine and thuggish way to treat artists and their work, even if he might have agreed with some of the party's racist policies, and the fact that Trunk's work has been for all practical purposes completely forgotten, I find it very unlikely indeed that he would have produced anything of interest. Evidence to the contrary has not so far been forthcoming.

Although he called himself a socialist, Wells was both an opponent of universal suffrage - believing that the average citizen was incapable of taking political decisions and should have no role in determing how society should be taken forward; an advocate of rigid state central planning; and a prominent proponent of eugenics (which is a major theme of his novel The New Machiavelli)  So, no democrat, but not a Nazi either, I'd argue.

There appears to be a Richard Trunk Musikschule in Tauberbischofsheim. Have no idea if that's relevant.

Tauberbischofsheim Baden is certainly relevant in that it is the place where Herr Trunk contrived to enter this world on the tenth of February 1879. He departed it in 1968 at Herrsching on the Ammersee - a picturesque spot with which we are well acquainted. There are monasteries near-by in which the monks spend most of their time brewing disagreeable alcoholic beverages.

This is quite the silliest thread I've come across on this board.

When I first stopped in a day or two ago I assumed that all these people denouncing Herr Trunk knew something about him independently of the two or three sentences that can be gleaned from Wiki.de. So I kept quiet, assuming that Mr Grew was being mischievous about someone notorious of whom I was ignorant.

If all anyone is going on is those couple of snippets, then I can only echo autoharp and suspend judgment until someone is able to furnish more information or (as is more likely) we all forget about it and find something a little less speculative to argue about.