Fred M. Hechinger (July 7, 1920 – November 6, 1995) was a German-born American education editor at The New York Times from 1959 to 1990.

[2] He earned his bachelor's degree at City College of New York,[2] where he wrote for the student newspaper, The Campus.

[4] After the war, Hechinger was a student at University of London and then a foreign correspondent for the Overseas News Agency.

[4] Hechinger spent the majority of his career at The New York Times, joining in 1959 and retiring in 1990.

[6] He died on November 7, 1995, at the age of 75, of cardiac arrest, at his home on Manhattan's Upper East Side.