Heinrich Edwin Rickert (27 December 1833 – 3 November 1902) was a German journalist and liberal politician.

Rickert attended school in Danzig (Gdańsk) and Thorn (Toruń) and studied economics at the Universities of Breslau (Wrocław) and Berlin.

[1][4] In a political conflict about the defense budget, fiscal bills and the Kulturkampf policy Rickert left his party and founded the left-liberal Liberal Union ("Secessionists") in 1880, Rickert led the party and published their "Reichsblatt" since 1882.

Rickert became the co-chairman next to Eugen Richter (1838–1906), but left the party again in a conflict regarding the defense budget in 1893.

[3] Rickert followed Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch as chairman of the Society for adult education ("Gesellschaft für Verbreitung von Volksbildung") and was a leading figure in the founding of the Organization for combatting Anti-Semitism ("Vereins zur Abwehr des Antisemitismus") in 1890.