Friedrich Wilhelm Herzog (30 March 1902 – 3 November 1976) was a German writer and music critic.
[1] After the Machtergreifung by the Nazi, he and 87 other writers signed the Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft to Adolf Hitler in October 1933.
[1] In 1934, he published the book Was ist deutsche Musik in which he wrote: "We want music that is filled with the expressive power of the National Socialist idea.
"[2] In the same year on 1 July, he became editor of the magazine Die Musik, Organ der NS-Kulturgemeinde.
At the end of August 1935, Herzog was briefly held in Gestapo custody because, according to the diary entries of Goebbels, he had seriously insulted his wife Magda.