Hans Kratzert (3 February 1940 – 15 August 2023) was a German screenwriter and film director.

He was part of the mass emigration of Germans westward following Nazi Germany's defeat during the war.

After military service, Kratzert began working at DEFA, the state-owned East German film company.

He made a number of family films,[1] and in 1972 directed the Red Western Tecumseh (1972), a biopic of the Native American leader of the same name.

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the closure of DEFA effectively ended his career as a film director.