Dietmar Wolter (born 27 September 1941 in Klosterbrück) is a German surgeon, inventor and entrepreneur.

With 36 years of age he was nominated as chief physician of the department of traumatology at the Asklepios Clinic St. Georg in Hamburg.

In 1990 he was nominated medical director and chief physician for the department of trauma-, plastic- and reconstructive surgery at the Trauma Center in Hamburg.

During his active duty as a surgeon in Hamburg he founded the medical devices company Litos in 1987 and initiated in 1998 the scientific magazine Trauma und Berufskrankheit (Springer, Heidelberg) and 1990 the German Ilisarow Society.

2002 he passes his function as medical director and chief physician on to his successor Christian Juergens and concentrated on innovations of connector systems in nature, medicine and technology.