Martin Böttcher

Martin Böttcher (Berlin, Germany, 17 June 1927 – 19 April 2019) was a German composer, arranger and conductor. Böttcher (on foreign records and articles often written "Bottcher" or "Boettcher", the latter being the correct transliteration of the German umlaut "ö") began taking piano lessons at an early age. But his first passion was flying, and he wanted to become a test pilot. Not yet seventeen years old, he got his military training in the German Luftwaffe. However, due to lack of fuel, he never went into action.