Alfred Theodor Bentz (26 July 1897 – 11 June 1964) was a German geologist and paleontologist who worked at the Preußischen Geologischen Bundesanstalt and served as an authority on the management of oil and gas reserves in Germany during the Third Reich.
After the war he was approached by Major Albert Everard Gunther who sought to manage oil reserves for the British occupied zone.
After the war Victor Moritz Goldschmidt who had moved to Oslo made a letter of declaration that Bentz had never been a Nazi party member and that he had been an independent thinker.
[2] Bentz headed geology research in Lower Saxony for a few years after the war and was involved in search for oil fields in the North Sea.
He died from a heart attack in Stratford-upon-Avon while on a visit in the UK to attend a meeting of the Permanent Council of the World Petroleum Congress.