Heinz Werner (2 December 1917 — 8 August 1978) was a Sturmbannführer (Major) in the Waffen-SS who was awarded the Knight's Cross with Oakleaves during World War II. The Knight's Cross was awarded to recognize extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership by Nazi Germany during World War II. The Oakleaves was a second award.

Werner was awarded his Knight's Cross while in command of the 3rd Battalion, 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment The Führer, 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.

Werner survived the war as a prisoner of the French Government, released in June 1951. He died on the 8 August 1978 in Essen.

Heinz Werner Zimmermann (born 11 August 1930 in Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German composer.

Zimmermann had his first composition instruction from 1946 to 1948 with Julius Weismann and studied from 1950 to 1954 in Heidelberg with Wolfgang Fortner as well as at the Institut for Protestant Church Music there. After passing his examinations at the Freiburg Conservatory under Harald Genzmer, he became Fortner’s successor in Heidelberg. Here he maintained close contacts with the musicologist Thrasyboulos Georgiades, whose rhythm and language studies influenced him the most, along with his occupation with American spirituals and jazz. From 1963 to 1976 Heinz Werner Zimmermann was director of the Berlin Church-Music School in Spandau, and then from 1975 to 1996 as successor to Kurt Hessenberg as composition teacher at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (Brusniak 2001).

Zimmermann’s best-known works are his sacred motets with plucked contrabass, his organ psalms, and his "Prosalieder". Among his chief works are his Missa profana, the spiritual oratorio The Bible of Spirituals as well as his Symphonia sacra.

Werner Zimmermann (born May 19, 1915) is a Swiss slalom and sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1930s to the early 1950s. As a slalom canoer, he won a bronze medal in the folding K-1 event at the 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva.

As a sprint canoer, he competed in two Summer Olympics. At the 1936 Summer Olympics, he finished sixth in the K-2 10000 m event. Twelve years later, he finished 11th in the K-2 10000 m event.

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