Vinzenz Hampel (* January 29, 1880 in Mastig near Arnau, Hohenelbe district; † June 27, 1955 in Altbach, Esslingen district) was a German educator and musician. He is known as the composer of the ''Riesengebirgslied'' (Song of the Giant Mountains).
Vinzenz Hampel trained as a teacher and initially worked in Hohenelbe, Harta and Tschermna. In 1915, he was put in charge of the "home for the mentally deficient" in Hohenelbe, which in 1918 was transformed into an educational institution for neglected, difficult-to-educate and psychopathic boys. Hempel's own teaching activities focused on speech therapy education; his treatment method for stuttering was particularly successful. Hampel ran the home as well as an adjoining dormitory for underage children until his retirement in 1936. Even in retirement, which he initially spent in Leitmeritz, he continued to work as a speech therapy teacher. In 1941, a speech therapy school was established in Moravian-Schoenberg based on his method.
In Hohenelbe, Hampel was the choir master of the singing society "Liedertafel", for which he also set texts by local poets and his own poetry to music. His greatest success was the composition of the Song of the Giant Mountains in 1915, whose text by Othmar Fiebiger he had found in the anniversary publication of the Trautenau Singing Society "Harmonie" from 1914.
In 1945 he was expelled from his homeland. With his family he first took up residence in Thuringia. Since he was not well liked by its rulers, he finally moved via Berlin to Altbach am Neckar, where he died after several strokes at the age of 75.
