Demmus Hentze (4 December 1923 – 3 January 2016) was a Faroese politician and lawyer.

Hentze had to wait until the war was over before he could move to Denmark to study law.

degree in 1952, he was a lawyer who was entitled to plead before the "landsret" (the Danish High Court).

A member of the People's Party, Hentze served as Finance Minister from 1975 to 1981.

[2] Demmus Hentze came from Uttastovu í Trøðum, Sandur, the son of farmer Johan Petur Hentze and Sunneva, born Clementsen, from Húsavík.