Reinhold Zimmermann

Reinhold Zimmermann (11 August 1889 – 4 April 1956) was a German school headmaster, choir conductor and musicologist.

In 1920, he became music editor of the magazine Der Türmer and later wrote especially for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.

In his obituary about Zimmermann, Hans Joachim Moser writes: "One of his favourite areas was the question of 'music and race', but he never went down the wrong path with his great knowledge of anthropological research.

Like his friend Moser, however, Zimmermann was one of the most ardent advocates of Nazi ideology, and as early as 1920 he stood out with antisemitic outbursts against the "spirit of internationalism in music".

Later, he was a member of the Reich Chamber of Literature [de] "Fachschriftsteller für Musik und Rassenkunde" and, from 1936, a member of the Office of Racial Policy.