Emil Friedrich von Boetticher (1836–1907) was a politician, burgomaster of Riga and its representative on the Livonian state council.

This was followed in 1870 by his appointment as President of Section II of the ecclesiastical Bailiwick Court, and in 1872, as its Chief Bailiff ('Obervogt').

[1] After the introduction in Riga of the 1878 Russian City Code (Russischen Städteordnung), he was elected city councillor, and in 1881 became burgomaster (bürgermeister); his responsibilities included presiding over orphanage, and gas and waterworks administration, and later overseeing the supply of clean drinking water.

From 1885 to 1906 extensive renovation work was carried out on Riga Cathedral and its cloisters under his leadership.

The cathedral administration honoured Emil von Boetticher by erecting a memorial plaque, placed on the right altar wall of Riga Cathedral, commemorating his services to the restoration of the church building.