Herman Joseph Schulteis (born Hermann Josef von Schultheiß; April 16, 1818 – January 14, 1889) was a German American immigrant, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.
During the second year of the American Civil War, he joined the Union Army as a hospital aide in the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment.
After about a year he was promoted to first lieutenant and regimental commissary officer, but retired due to poor health in March 1864.
Schulteis married Margareta Merkel, an immigrant from Bavaria, in Milwaukee's St. Peter German Catholic Congregation Church in 1846.
Their seventh child, Herman Jr., after obtaining his law degree became locally infamous in Washington, D.C., in the early part of the 20th century as a scam artist who, along with a longtime partner, claimed to be influential lobbyists.