Dietrich Stobbe (25 March 1938 – 19 February 2011) was a German politician who served as the Mayor of West Berlin from 1977 to 1981,[1] as a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

After graduating from high school in Stade, Lower Saxony, he came to Berlin and studied political science at the Free University.

From 1963 to 1966 he was a press officer in the Senate Department for Youth and Sport, after which he worked for around a year as an assistant to the board of a Berlin brewery company.

After Schütz's resignation in 1977, Stobbe was elected as mayor, as he had not worn himself out in internal party power struggles and was familiar with the federal political scene.

In December 1978, after eleven years of construction, the new building of the State Library, designed by Hans Scharoun, was opened, followed in April 1979 by the inauguration of the International Congress Center (ICC).