Heinz Röthke (19 January 1912 – 14 July 1966) was a German SS-Obersturmführer of Nazi Germany and a convicted war criminal.

Röthke was the Gestapo Jewish expert in Paris, and, as such, was in overall charge of the concentration camp in Occupied France as well as of the deportation of Jews, between 1940 and 1944, during the Holocaust.

During the German occupation of France, he initially served as a Kriegsverwaltungsrat (military administration counselor) in Brest, before becoming deputy of Theodor Dannecker, the principal architect of the Jewish Question, in spring 1942.

On 6 March, he wrote in a memorandum:[4] The transport of the Jews from France must not be allowed to stop before the last Jew has left French soil, and that must happen before the end of the war.In 1945, Röthke was found guilty of war crimes by a French tribunal and sentenced to death in absentia.

[5] He escaped to West Germany, where he resumed his career as a lawyer and lived undisturbed in Wolfsburg.