Ernst Glaeser (29 July 1902 – 8 February 1963) was a German writer, known for his best-selling pacifist novel Jahrgang 1902 ("Born in 1902").

He then studied law, philosophy and German subjects at Freiburg im Breisgau, Brussels and Munich.

[1] Jahrgang 1902 is an autobiographical novel about youthful political and sexual awakening in a small German town before and during World War I (1914–18).

I hand over the writings of Heinrich Mann, Ernst Glaeser and Erich Kästner to the flame"[6]), which were removed from the public libraries.

[4] He was given permission by the Propaganda Ministry to publish literary works under the pseudonym "Ernst Töpfer", subject to prior review and approval by the literature department.

Joseph Goebbels hoped Glaeser would write a trilogy that would avow faith in the German Volk and would attack emigration.

[9] During World War II (1939–45) he edited Adler in Süden, a Luftwaffe newspaper distributed in North Africa and Italy.