Eduard Gustav Ludwig Adolph Wach, known as Adolf Wach[1] (11 September 1843 – 4 April 1926) was a German jurist, a professor in Königsberg, Rostock, Tübingen, Bonn and Leipzig.

Wach passed his Abitur in 1861 at the gymnasium in Kulm and studied law at the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Königsberg and Göttingen.

From 1868 to 1869 he worked as Privatdozent of religious and Civil procedure law at the University of Königsberg.

He was buried next to his wife in Gsteig, Switzerland, where he had owned a holiday chalet.

[4][5] The Wach family preserved the heritage of Felix Mendelssohn in a collection of letters, furniture and objects of art.