In 1963, Kleine Wilhelmstraße in the Bierstadt district of Wiesbaden was renamed Anton-Günther-Straße. The folk poet, singer and composer Anton Günther (1876-1937) had already been suggested to the local council there in 1960 by the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft as the name sponsor for a traffic area in Bierstadt. The renaming in 1963 was one of several that took place due to duplicate street names in Bierstadt and Wiesbaden-Mitte.

Anton Günther was born on June 5, 1876 in Gottesgab (now Boži Dar in the Czech Republic) in the Ore Mountains as the son of the white goods embroiderer and draughtsman Hans Günther. Günther initially attended elementary school in his birthplace and transferred to the secondary school in Joachimstahl (Jachymov) in 1888. He completed this in 1892. He then completed a three-year apprenticeship as a lithographer in Buchholz, Saxony. In 1895 Günther moved to Prague and worked at the court lithography studio of A. Haase.

In the same year, he began writing his own local songs in dialect, which he performed at evening events in Prague. These included one of his best-known songs entitled "Drham isʼ drham" ("Home is home"). Due to the great attention this song attracted, Günther began to print his lyrics on self-designed postcards and publish them himself. These song postcards brought the singer national fame.

After the death of his father, Anton Günther returned to his home town in 1901 and took over his parents' farm. In addition to his work, Günther continued to perform at recitals and wrote further songs. Significant for Günther's song texts is their strong reference to his homeland, the Erzgebirge, which is why they contain nationalistic elements. The 200 or so songs he composed were written in dialect and performed by him at so-called Erzgebirge evenings throughout Saxony. Even before the First World War, Günther's lyrics were characterized by a strong German nationalism.

One of his best-known songs "Deitsch on frei wollʼ n mer sei" ["We want to be German and free"] from 1908, for example, reads: "...dennʼs ist doch es beste, es allerhochste Gut, onnrer alten deitschen Haamit gilt dr letzte Troppen Blut. We want to be German and free, and we'll stick to it because we're Arzgebirger! " (After all, it is the best, the highest good. Our old German homeland is our last drop of blood. We want to be German and free and we'll stick to it because we're Erzgebirger).
Günther's homeland belonged to Austria-Hungary in 1914, which is why the folk poet took part in the First World War as an Austrian soldier. During the war, Günther wrote marching songs such as "Landstrom-Marsch" and "Hurra! ʼs gieht lus".
As a result of the war, the collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy and the post-war European order of Versailles, the German-speaking minority did not succeed in founding "German Austria". The Czechs occupied the Bohemian territories and thus prevented the German-speaking community, which had previously supported the state, from participating in the founding of the Austrian state. Anton Günther's homeland also became part of the newly founded Czechoslovakia. The German-speaking community was subsequently discriminated against by laws and decrees, which led to a radicalization of the relationship between Germans and Czechs. Günther can be regarded as a literary exponent of the "homeland-loyal", German nationalist movement within the German minority in Czechoslovakia. In 1933, a Sudeten German movement was founded under Konrad Hehnlein as a result of the denial of co-determination and self-government rights to the German community in Czechoslovakia.
Nevertheless, Günther is usually portrayed in the literature as an "apolitical artist" who suffered from his appropriation by the "homeland-loyal" Henlein movement and the National Socialists. In fact, Anton Günther appeared at an election campaign event for Konrad Henlein and his National Socialist Sudeten German Party in 1935.

After the founding of Czechoslovakia, the song "Deitsch on frei wollʼ n mer sei", written in 1908, was particularly popular during the intensifying nationality conflict.

The song was used by ethnic groups, the Sudeten German Henlein movement and the National Socialists alike. In particular, pieces in which Günther thematized the homeland developed into an aggressive confession in a demonstratively völkisch and nationalistic reading.
Later biographies assume that the folk song poet committed suicide due to the use of his works by the Nazi movement and the resulting pressure on him. In fact, the causes of Günther's suicide on April 29, 1937 are unclear. Apparently, the singer was suffering from financial problems and depression.

His songs have retained a certain popularity to this day. According to a report by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, "Deitsch on frei wollʼ n mer sei" is still the "secret anthem of the Ore Mountains", but was also used by the nationalist NPD during election campaign appearances. In the Ore Mountains and Vogtland, numerous traffic areas were named after Günther. After the Second World War, the memory of Günther was also kept alive in West Germany by representatives of the expellees.

Due to Günther's appearance at an election campaign event of the Sudeten German Party in 1935 and the resulting public articulation of National Socialist ideology as well as his commitment to Konrad Henlein, the Historical Expert Commission appointed by the City Council in 2020 to review traffic areas, buildings and facilities named after people in the state capital of Wiesbaden recommended the contextualization of Anton-Günther-Straße.