Elisabeth Charlotte Motschmann (née Baroness von Düsterlohe; born 13 October 1952) is a German journalist and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from 2013 until 2021.

Motschmann worked as a freelance journalist and publicist until 1993, focusing on family and women's issues, child poverty, and reporting on third world countries.

From 2012 until 2021, Motschmann was a member of the federal executive board of the Christian Democratic Union under the leadership of successive chairwomen Angela Merkel (2012–2018) and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (2018–2021).

[7] In addition to her committee assignments, Motschmann was a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 2018 until 2021.

[9] In the negotiations to form the fourth coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Motschmann was part of the working group on cultural and media affairs.

In February 2021, Motschmann announced that she would not stand in that year's federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

[17] In September 2020, Motschmann was one of 15 members of her parliamentary group who joined Norbert Röttgen in writing an open letter to Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer which called on Germany and other EU counties to take in 5000 immigrants who were left without shelter after fires gutted the overcrowded Mória Reception and Identification Centre on the Greek island of Lesbos.

[18] Ahead of the Christian Democrats’ leadership election in 2021, Motschmann publicly endorsed Röttgen to succeed Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the party’s chair.