Fritz Erler (14 July 1913 – 22 February 1967) was a German politician representing the Social Democratic Party (SPD).

Erler served as a municipal official until the Nazis arrested him in 1938 and imprisoned him on treason charges.

After the end of the Second World War, Erler became involved in politics on the state level before being elected to the Bundstag at 1949, when he was 36 years old.

[5] Erler was elected, without opposition, as one of two deputy chairman of the SPD in 1964 at the special party congress in Bad Godesberg.

[7] His daughter, Gisela Erler, would become a left-wing feminist publisher, entrepreneur and, from 2011 to 2021, a member of the state government of Baden-Württemberg.