Dieter Mecke (8 March 1933, in Heidelberg – 28 May 2013, in Tübingen) was a German biochemist and chemist.
He worked for one year for Fritz Kaudewitz at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin and returned 1964 to the biochemical institute of the medical faculty, where he habilitated in 1969 in biochemistry.
From 1987 to 1989 he was dean of the faculty of chemistry and pharmacy in Tübingen and from 1994 to 1999 prorector for research.
He investigated the regulation of the metabolism and the cell cycle and focussed on molecular biological and endocrinological topics as well as enzymology and the differentiation of the parenchyma of the liver.
[1] Additionally, he was since 2000 chairman of the supervisory board of HB Technologies AG.