Johann Heinrich Burchard (26 July 1852 – 6 September 1912) was a Hamburg lawyer and politician who served as senator (from 1885 until his death) and First Mayor and President of the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (in 1903, 1906, 1908–1909 and from 1 January 1912 until his death).

His father was a merchant in Bremen, who in 1853 became a partner of the Berenberg Bank (Joh.

The family then relocated to Hamburg,[1][2] where, after taking part in the Franco-Prussian War as a volunteer, he completed his abitur at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums before studying law at the Universities of Leipzig, Heidelberg and Göttingen.

A portrait of Burchard by Max Liebermann is displayed at Hamburg's representation (embassy) in Berlin.

His oldest son, Wilhelm Amsinck Burchard-Motz, was also a Hamburg senator and Second Mayor.