Franz Xaver Schönhuber (10 January 1923 – 27 November 2005) was a German right-wing extremist[1] journalist, politician, and author.

He was accused of minimizing the grave crimes of National Socialism, although, within a lawsuit, he also won a determination that the book did not represent an identification with the Nazi regime.

Together with former CSU deputies Franz Handlos and Ekkehard Voigt, Schönhuber founded the right-wing populist party "Die Republikaner" (The Republicans) in 1983 and became its acting chairman.

However, deteriorating results led to internal conflicts, and Schönhuber criticized several members of the party, including Harald Neubauer, for having had associations with the National Democratic Party (NPD), which was deemed to be at the same time too "Nazi-like" and too "leftist", in that it proposed major socialist popular reform plans not shared by Schönhuber's more bourgeois-nationalist and more conservative Republicans.

In 2001, together with Horst Mahler, he published the book Schluss mit dem deutschen Selbsthass (An End To German Self-Hatred).