Otto Nitze (20 September 1924 – 8 May 1988) was a German musician and composer, who also published essential compositions under the pseudonym 'Tom Dawitt'.
[1] He then attended the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt,[2] where his teachers were Professor Kurt Thomas, August Leopolder and Wolfgang Riehm.
Nitze received art lessons from the Idar-Oberstein artist Max Rupp, who was a teacher at the Musisches Gymnasium.
[3][4] The aim of both orchestras and Nitze's special concern was the intensive musical promotion of young people and youth work.
For his services to music and youth work as well as his artistic activities, he received the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Golden Badge of Honour of the city of Idar-Oberstein, the coat of arms plates of the city of Idar-Oberstein and the district of Birkenfeld, the Peter Cornelius Plaque of the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Croix de Mérite de la Confédération Internationale des Sociétés Musicales, the Federal Promotional Medal in Silver and Gold of the Federation of German Wind and Folk Music Associations and that of the Landesmusikverband Rheinland-Pfalz [de], the Conductor's Badge of Honour in Silver and Gold as well as the Golden Town Hall Man of the City of Vienna.