Anton Storch (1 April 1892 – 26 November 1975) was a German trade unionist, politician, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the minister of labor from 1949 to 1957.

[2] He contributed to the reestablishment of the trade unions in Hanover (British Zone) in 1945 and 1946.

[2] From 1946 to 1948, he served as the chief of department for social policy of British Zone trade unions.

Storch was an advocate of "far-reaching social welfare programme"[7] and of Catholic political economy.

[9] He argued that the reason for two world wars was the "exaggerated liberal-capitalistic economic order of the last one hundred years.