Oberleutnant Hans Bethge HoH, IC (6 December 1890–17 March 1918) was a German pilot who was one of the first World War I flying aces, as well as an aerial commander.

The new Staffelführer claimed his next victim on 28 March 1917, and began a steady scoring pace that had him showing a tally of 18 wins by 31 October 1917.

It was during this stretch that he claimed three opposing aces as victims; Royal Naval Air Service ace Philip Andrew Johnston died in a collision with a wingman on 17 August, and Bethge shot down the Bristol F.2 Fighter crew of Thomas Frederick Stephenson and Sidney Platel on 31 October.

It featured tapering longitudinal gray and white stripes the length of the fuselage, with a dark gold diamond on the exterior cockpit walls.

When he was still 200 meters from the British formation they were attacking, his Pfalz curved sharply downwards and out of sight, probably hit by return fire from a D.H.4 of No.

Bethge's body was sent home to Berlin, where it was buried in Jerusalem's Church cemetery near the Halle Gate.

His mother was told on 18 March that her son would receive the Pour le Merite;[2] however, it had not been approved before his untimely death.