Heinz Martin Albert Röttger (6 November 1909 – 26 August 1977) was a German composer.
[1] From 1928 to 1931 Röttger attended the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich, where he studied under Walter Courvoisier and Hugo Röhr.
From 1930 to 1934 he studied under Alfred Lorenz and Adolf Sandberger at the University of Munich;[2] his doctoral thesis was on problems of form in the work of Richard Strauss.
[2][3] Until the outbreak of the Second World War he was Kapellmeister in Augsburg, in Bavaria.
[2] His works include Bellmann, 1946; Phaeton, 1957; Der Heiratsantrag, a comic opera after Anton Chekhov, 1960; Die Frauen von Troja, 1962; Der Weg nach Palermo, 1965; Spanisches Capriccio, 1976.