Andreas Bretschneider (born August 4, 1989) is a German artistic gymnast and member of the national team.

He participated at the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow,[2] and eventually competed for the German squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing seventh in the artistic team all-around tournament, and twentieth in the individual all-around.

[1][3] Bretschneider has one competition-verified original skill named after him on the horizontal bar, the double-twisting (tucked) Kovac.

Bretschneider was once widely expected to advance the Bretschneider on the horizontal bar himself to layout in competition, and the skill was scored ahead of time by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and unofficially coined the Bretschneider 2 on the horizontal bar to better facilitate him as they awaited for the skill to be successfully completed in competition.

He had started submitting the skill to the (FIG) for verification since the world championships in 2013, but not been able to further compete it in a suitable setting after the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro due to injuries.