Heinrich Arnold Theodor Spitta (19 March 1902 – 23 June 1972) was a German music educator, composer and musicologist.
Spitta studied with Arnold Mendelssohn and Hermann Grabner and was awarded a doctorate in 1927 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen with a dissertation about Heinrich Schütz.
[2] In 1933, Spitta taught as a teacher at the Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin and was at the same time appointed to the cultural office of the Reichsjugendführer.
He mainly composed choral works which were used in the celebrations of the Hitler Youth (e.g. Heilig Vaterland, 1934; Jahr überm Pflug, 1936).
Due to this activity, he was partly included in the Unabkömmlichstellung (UK) und Zurückstellung [de] and Gottbegnadeten list during the war.