Friedrich Geiger (born in 1966) is a German musicologist.
After gaining his PhD in 1997 with a thesis on Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel, he headed the Research and Information Centre for ostracized Music at the Dresden Centre for Contemporary Music from 1997 to 2002.
He then lectured at the musicological institutes of the TU Dresden and the University of Hamburg.
After his habilitation in 2003 with a study on the persecution of composers under Hitler and Stalin, he was research assistant and lecturer at the musicological seminar of the Free University of Berlin in the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft special research area Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of Artistic Limits from 2003 to 2007.
Since summer semester 2007 he has been teaching as professor for historical musicology at the University of Hamburg.