Hans Severus Ziegler

Hans Severus Ziegler (13 October 1893 – 1 May 1978) was a German publicist, theater manager, teacher and Nazi Party official.

[4] That year his newspaper expanded to a daily and changed its name to Der Nationalsozialist, becoming the Nazi Party organ of Thuringia.

[9] Ziegler was associated with the hard-line racialist wing of the Nazi Party, which looked to Alfred Rosenberg as its champion.

[13][14] Ziegler played a leading role in promoting the Nazi vision of culture, particularly with regards to "degenerate" music.

[16] Whilst working under Frick, in Thuringia, Ziegler had also overseen the removal of modern art pieces from museums and public buildings, and helped to bring about a crackdown on the "glorification of Negroidism" by restricting the performance of jazz music.

[18] Entartete Musik would continue Ziegler's crusade against jazz,[19] whilst also condemning Ernst Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf as the archetype of Weimar decadence and miscegenation.