Fritz Daniel Frech (26 March 1861 – 28 September 1917) was a German geologist and paleontologist.
He studied natural sciences at the universities of Leipzig, Bonn and Berlin, receiving his doctorate in 1882 with a thesis on the coral fauna of the Late Devonian period in Germany.
During World War I, he died in Aleppo while serving as a senior geologist under the command of the German army.
[1] He published extensively on fossil invertebrates, being especially interested in extinct fauna from a stratigraphic-geological perspective.
From 1913 he was an editor of the "Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie and Paläontologie".