Erich "Ete" Beer (born 9 December 1946) is a German former football player and coach.

Beer was born in Neustadt bei Coburg.

FC Nürnberg, Rot-Weiss Essen and Hertha BSC.

For these teams he played in Midfield in a total of 342 games, scoring 95 goals.

Between 1975 and 1978 he played in 24 games for the West Germany national team, scoring seven goals.