Ernst Hellmut Vits (19 September 1903 – 23 January 1970) was a German lawyer who headed the rayon manufacturer Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken (VGF) from 1940 to 1969.

His father, Ernst August Vitz, was an evangelical minister who later became General Superintendent of Neumark and Lower Lusatia.

From April 1929 he was a legal adviser to the Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG, an auditing firm.

[9] Vits moved from Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand to Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken (VGF) in 1939, where he became chairman and chief executive officer in April 1940.

[8] On 23 October 1941 Vits and the economics professor Alfred Müller-Armack founded the Research Center for Textile Education and Enterprise in Münster.

[11] Vits gave financial support to his brother-in-law Heinrich Grüber, a Protestant clergyman and opponent of the Nazis, who helped racially persecuted evangelical Christians.

[12] After Grüber was arrested, he was released from concentration camp due to international efforts and multiple interventions by Vits.

[13] After the end of World War II Vits moved his official residence from Berlin to Coburg and then to Wuppertal.

From 1955 to 1970 he was Chairman of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Donors' Association for German Science).

[24] Vits supported the Mainfränkisches Museum in Würzburg, the Römermuseum Obernburg and the Stiftsmuseum der Stadt Aschaffenburg.