Composer, Pianist. Most remembered for writing the famed World War II song, "Lili Marlene." Educated in music in Cologne and Munich, he became a theatrical musical director in Heidelberg. Before and during the war, he worked for Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, writing dialog for popular German films and songs. In 1938, he took a 1915 poem by Hans Leip, about a soldier's sweetheart who waited for her soldier love in the lamplight near the barracks, and rewrote it into a song entitled "Lili Marlene." Initially it was not a success, but in 1941, it was broadcast from German occupied Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to the German soldiers of the Africa Korps, and overnight, became a hit with both German and allied soldiers alike. To keep allied soldiers from singing the German version, the British government had an English language version of the lyrics published, and Marlene Dietrich later adopted it as her signature song during her USO tours to American GIs. Initially Joseph Goebbels tried to ban the song, arguing that it was too sentimental, but its popularity soon reversed the ban. Schultze is also remembered for the line "Fuhrer, befiehl, wir folgen dir" ("Great Leader, command us, and we will follow") from the German movie "From Finland to the Black Sea." He also wrote the music for the Luftwaffe's unofficial anthem, "Bomben auf Engelland." (Bombs on England). After the war, he found himself discredited as a Nazi sympathizer, and was unable to find work initially in any radio, theater, or music industry. Taking work as a gardener, he supported himself and his family, and later, apologized for supporting the Nazis. He worked as a bit-actor in two German movies after the war, "Max und Moritz" (1956) and "Zu jung fuer die Liebe?" (1961), helping also to write and direct the first movie. His works appeared in numerous movies after the war, usually it was the song, "Lili Marlene" that was used. He served on the Executive Board of GEMA (the German Society for Composing and Performing Music) from 1973 to 1991, and in 1996, received its Ring of Honor for his contributions to music.