Baron Edmund Gutmann von Gelse und Belišće (3 March 1841 – 17 January 1918) was a Croatian nobleman, industrialist and together with his family (father and brothers) founder of the settlement which became Belišće, Croatia.

After the retirement of his father, Baron Gutmann and his brothers took over the company.

Baron Gutmann bought in February 1884, on a ten-year lease, the complex of oak forests from Baron of Valpovo, Gustav Hillenprand Prandau.

Soon after the first residential houses of Gutmann settlement – colony were built, fire department, post office, primary school building, the chapel at the cemetery were also built, together with electric grid and water supply with sewage.

[8][9] Baron Gutmann was knighted by Franz Joseph I of Austria and awarded with a hereditary peer Baron von Gelse und Belišće.