was an SS-Hauptscharführer who became head of the unit IV E of the RSHA – Reich Security Main Office of the Gestapo (secret state police) in occupied Paris, France, during World War II.

[1] Ernst Misselwitz arrived in July 1942 rue des Saussaies at the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), the intelligence services of the SS.

On 3–4 July 1943 Jean Moulin was taken to the Gestapo headquarters in Paris where Misselwitz interrogated him along with Klaus Barbie.

[5] On 21 March, Forest Yeo-Thomas, an agent of the Special Operations Executive was captured by the Gestapo at the Passy tube station.

Misselwitz was arrested and imprisoned for a short time and offered to spy among the inmates, starting in early 1946.

Serge and Beate Klarsfeld discovered that the French secret services employed Ernst Misselwitz beginning in 1945.