Carl Frederick Wittke, (13 November 1892 – 24 May 1971) was an American historian and academic administrator.
He was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1892; his father was a German immigrant who owned a factory.
In 1913 he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio State University, and gained a PhD in history under Professor Charles Howard McIlwain at Harvard in 1921.
He then became dean of the graduate school at Western Reserve University, until his retirement in 1963.
He helped establish ethnic studies as a major specialty in American history.