Walter August Wilhelm Schulz (27 September 1893 – 21 January 1968) was a German cellist, viol player and college teacher.
In 1926 he became concertmaster and 1st solo cellist as successor of Eduard Rosé at the Staatskapelle Weimar, where he was active until 1936.
In 1934 he received an extraordinary and in 1947 a full professorship at the State Academy of Music Weimar.
[2] During his term of office, 2-year plans were in force which were to commit the college of music to Marxism-Leninism.
His son was the opera singer Hanns-Herbert Schulz (1927–2006), who also performed under the pseudonym Hanns Petersen.