Herbert Kurt Böttcher (24 April 1907 – 12 June 1950) was a German lawyer, and chief of police of Memel (today, Klaipėda) and Kassel.

Böttcher was born in Prökuls, East Prussia (today, Priekulė, Lithuania) the son of a local politician, and attended the Memel gymnasium.

After being released from prison in 1937, Böttcher was elected to the Parliament of the Klaipėda Region in September 1935 as a representative of the Unified German List.

[4] In an effort to prevent Poles from assisting those Jews who tried to escape from the ghetto, Böttcher issued the following instructions: In the Radom District ... police superintendent Herbert Böttcher’s order to German police stations ... provided that if weapons or Jews were found in a Polish house all persons living there (including children) were to be killed and the house was to be burnt down.

[5]Böttcher also was implicated in the related Michniów massacre of 12–13 July 1943, in which 204 inhabitants were murdered and their village burned to the ground in retaliation for their alleged assistance to the Polish resistance.

[2] After the end of the war in Europe, Böttcher was arrested by the Royal Military Police and sent to internment camps in Neumünster-Gadeland and Neuengamme located in the British occupation zone.