Siegfried Reda (27/07/1916 - 12/12/1968), a German protestant church musician and composer. He was born in Bochum. He studied church music in the Dortmund Conservatory and composition under Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler in the Berlin-Spandau church music school. From 1938 to 1941 he was an organist in Berlin. At the end of WW II he became a church musician in Gelsenkirchen and Bochum. In 1953 he became the church music director of the St. Petri-Kirche in Mülheim/Ruhr, he also lead the church music department of the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen from 1946, Herbert Callhoff and Wolfgang Hufschmidt being amongst his pupils. He died in Mülheim/Ruhr. Siegfried Reda was a leading personality of his time and especially significant with regard to organ music composition, interpretation and construction. He wrote songs, organ music and church music (e.g. motets).