Hermann Ritter von Speck (8 August 1888 – 15 June 1940) was a German general during World War II.

Speck was killed by French machine gun fire on 15 June 1940 in Pont-sur-Yonne, France.

[1] After World War I, Speck joined the Freikorps and participated in the suppression of the German Revolution of 1918–1919 in southern Bavaria, Landshut, Augsburg, and Munich.

[citation needed] In 2010, Jay Nordlinger spoke with von Speck's daughter, who claimed that the general deliberately sought death in battle: "According to his daughter, he wanted to die, and arranged to die.

He felt he could not break his oath to the army — he could not desert.