Fritz Hellwig (3 August 1912 – 22 July 2017) was a German CDU politician and European Commissioner.

After finishing school in 1930 in Saarbrücken, he studied philosophy, national economy, political sciences and history in Marburg, Vienna and Humboldt University of Berlin.

He received a doctorate in 1933 in Berlin with a study on The Fight for the Saar 1860 – 1870, and in 1936 concluded a Habilitation with a work on the Saarland Industrialist Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg.

At first, Hellwig had belonged to the Centre Party but in 1947 he joined the CDU and immediately became a member of the political-economic committee for the Rhineland.

Hellwig left the Bundestag to become a member of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community.