Adolf von Trotha (1 March 1868 – 11 October 1940) was a German admiral in the Kaiserliche Marine.

After the German revolution he briefly served as the first Chef der Admiralität, which replaced the imperial Reichsmarineamt.

Trotha was born 1 March 1868 at Koblenz, at the time part of the Rhine Province of the Kingdom of Prussia.

He served as a commander of the torpedo boat D3 and as a navigations officer on the small cruiser SMS Seeadler.

[6] On 23 March 1934, the Reich Federation of German Seafaring was founded under Trotha's chairmanship; this was the successor organization to the Navy League.