Siegfried Köhler (volleyball)
Siegfried Köhler is the name of: * Siegfried Köhler (conductor) (1923–2017), German conductor and composer of classical music * Siegfried Köhler (composer) (1927–1984), German composer of classical music and songs * Siegfried Köhler (cyclist) (born 1935), German cyclist See also * Köhler Köhler is a German surname, referring to a man making charcoal from wood. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 96.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Köhler'' were residents of Germany (frequency 1:641) and 1.5% of Austria (1:4,238). In ...

Siegfried Köhler (conductor)
Siegfried Köhler (30 July 1923 – 12 September 2017) was a German conductor and composer of classical music. He worked as general music director of opera houses such as Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Royal Swedish Opera. Köhler conducted premieres of works by Hans Werner Henze and Volker David Kirchner, among others, and revived rarely performed operas. He also composed music for the stage and taught at universities of music in Cologne and Saarbrücken. Career Born in Freiburg im Breisgau the son of a horn player, Köhler studied harp at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. From 1942, he worked at the Theater Heilbronn as a harpist and repetiteur. During World War II he was a ''Funker'' (radio operator). He conducted from 1946 in Freiburg, promoted in 1952 to ''1. Kapellmeister'' (first conductor). From 1954, he worked at the opera in Düsseldorf. From 1957, he conducted at the Cologne Opera, and later became its Generalmusikdirektor (GMD). He conducted there i ...
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Siegfried Köhler (composer)
Siegfried Köhler (2 March 1927 in Meißen – 14 July 1984 in East Berlin) was a German composer in the German Democratic Republic. Life During World War II, Köhler worked with a musicians group ''(Spielschar)'' within the Hitler Youth organisation. After the end of the war, the Soviet secret police NKVD arrested him and charged him with being a member of the Werwolf. He was detained at the infamous prison Speziallager Nr. 4 in Bautzen. In March 1946 he was transferred into Speziallager Nr. 1 in Mühlberg and on 21 June 1946 he was handed over to the NKVD command in Dresden. He was released there suffering from tuberculosis.Andreas Weigelt: ''Chronik der Initiativgruppe Lager Mühlberg e.V.''. IG Lager Mühlberg, Mühlberg/Elbe, 2010 (), referenced by: Dieter Härtwig: ''Er erträumte ein „Reich des Menschen“.'' In: ''Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten'' March 2, 2002 Köhler went on to study first Composition in Dresden and then musicology and Art history in Leipzig. From 1 ...
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Siegfried Köhler (cyclist)
Siegfried Köhler (born 6 October 1935) is a German cyclist. He won the silver medal in team pursuit in the 1960 Summer Olympics. Early life and family Siegfried Köhler was born in Forst, Brandenburg, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe .... References 1935 births Living people Sportspeople from Forst (Lausitz) Sportspeople from the Province of Brandenburg German male cyclists German track cyclists Olympic cyclists for the United Team of Germany Cyclists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the United Team of Germany Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze People from Bezirk Cottbus East German male cycli ...
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