Dirk Böttcher (13 October 1921 – 23 January 2011[1]) was a German printer master, author and president of the association of Friends of the Historisches Museum Hannover.
[2] He passed his Abitur at the Ratsgymnasium [de][2] and was drafted to the Wehrmacht, serving until 1945.
In 1948 he became a master printing teacher and received the Betriebleiter diploma of the Meisterschule für Deutschlands Buchdrucker in Munich.
He then was associate of the Carl Küster printing company in Hanover.
[2][3] He was a long-term president of the association of Friends of the Historisches Museum Hannover.