Herbert Klemm (15 May 1903 – 4 July 1963) was a German lawyer and SA-Oberführer who was a protégé of high-ranking Nazi officials Martin Bormann and Otto Thierack.

[2] Klemm was friends with Martin Bormann,[3] who was the chief of staff to Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess at the Munich headquarters of the Nazi Party.

On 17 March 1941, Klemm secured an appointment to this office as the head of Department III-C, which dealt with reviewing laws and ordinances proposed by the Ministry of Justice.

[4] On 5 May 1945, when the cabinet of the so-called Flensburg government was formed by Leading Minister Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, Thierack was dismissed and Klemm succeeded him as acting Reichsminister of Justice.

[6] The verdict was based on the following offenses: Klemm's sentence was commuted to 20 years and, on 14 February 1957, he was released from Landsberg prison and settled in Bredeney, a borough of Essen.