Fritz "Freddie" Brocksieper (August 24, 1912 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire – January 17, 1990) was a German jazz-musician, drummer, and bandleader.
At a young age in 1917, he observed military parades and developed an attraction to Turkish cymbals that led him to pursue music later in life.
He recorded with his own ensembles, both large and small, in the later 1940s; he performed for American GIs in Stuttgart, Munich, and Berlin.
[2] The son of a Greek-speaking Jewish woman and a German engineer, he was able to get through National-Socialism as an essential swing musician.
After the Second World War he led various bands in Stuttgart, Munich, and Berlin, and played also in American officers' clubs.