Helmut Neuhaus (born 29 August 1944) is a German historian who specialises on the Early modern period.
Since 1998 he has also been a full member of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences [de], whose secretary he was elected in 2006.
From 2005 to 2007 he was chairman of the working group "Early Modern Times" in the Association of German Historians [de].
Neuhaus' field of work covers a wide range of topics in early modern German history with a special focus on the constitutional history [de] of the Holy Roman Empire, to whose research he has made an important contribution.
At the end of the summer semester of 2009 he gave his farewell lecture [de] on the topic Die Goldene Bulle von 1356 in der Frühen Neuzeit (The Golden Bull of 1356 in the Early Modern Period).