Ernst Penzoldt (14 June 1892 – 27 January 1955) was a German writer, sculptor and painter.
His father Franz Penzoldt was a German professor of medicine.
During World War I Petzoldt was in the army and worked as an emergency medical technician.
During the next years Penzoldt wrote several works, which he published in Heimeran Verlag.
In 1922 Penzoldt married Heimerans sister Friederike.