Ewald Straesser (Sträßer) (27 June 1867 – 4 April 1933) was a German composer. Straesser was born in Burscheid, near Cologne. He was a student of Franz Wüllner at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln and later counted Georg van Albrecht among his own students, also Erwin Schulhoff (teaching him instrumentation/orchestration) At the Hochschule he succeeded Joseph Haas as professor of composition in 1921. Major works by Straesser include: There is an Ewald-Sträßer-Weg (Way/Street) in Burscheid.