Hans Joachim Köhler (born in 1936) is a German musicologist.
Born in Leipzig, Köhler studied music education and English at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.
In 1979 he became a lecturer and in 1992 he was appointed professor for music pedagogy in Leipzig.
As a Leipzig Schumann researcher, he published the 30-volume original text edition of Robert Schumann's piano works at Edition Peters.
In addition to numerous articles on aesthetic and biographical aspects of Robert and Clara Schumann, he published two monographs on Schumann's works: In 1978, Köhler won the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau.