Franz Rudolf Frisching (c. 1733 – c. 1807) was a Swiss nobleman, military officer, politician and industrialist.

In 1748, Franz Rudolf Frisching became a member of the Swiss Guards of the Netherlands where he achieved the rank of a colonel.

[2] He was lieutenant colonel of the Bernese Jäger Corps.

[4] Between 1750 and 1777 the Frisching family was in the possession of the large Lorraine Gut, a former country estate which is now part of the city of Bern.

[5] His ancestor, Samuel Frisching (II), built the Frisching-Haus, now known as the Béatrice-von-Wattenwyl-Haus on the Junkerngasse in Bern.