Friedrich Anton Walter Landfried (26 September 1884 – 31 December 1952) was a German lawyer and civil servant in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

[1] After obtaining his Abitur from the Gymnasium in Heidelberg, Landfried entered the 15th (1st Upper Alsatian) Field Artillery Regiment of the Prussian Army in Strasbourg as a one-year volunteer in 1903–1904.

[2] Discharged as a Leutnant of reserves, Landfried continued his education and transferred to Heidelberg University, where he joined the Corps Vandalia.

[4] On 18 March 1939, Landfried was assigned to take over the duties of Rudolf Brinkmann, the State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics, who was placed on medical leave.

This meeting determined that the need for the army to live off the land by confiscation of crops and livestock would necessarily involve the starvation of millions of Russians.

[5] After retiring in November 1943, Landfried was assigned as deputy chief of the Military Administration of Italy under SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff in early 1944.

His writing on "The Economic Policy of Frederick the Great and National Socialist Germany" was placed on the list of proscribed materials in the Soviet zone of occupation.

Released from custody later in 1947, he moved to Hamburg with his wife, where he became a member of the Evangelisches Hilfswerk, a relief organization of the Evangelical Church in Germany.