Johann Viktor Bredt (2 March 1879 – 1 December 1940) was a German jurist and politician.

[1][2] He worked at the Barmer Bankverein in 1897/8 before studying jurisprudence and economics at Tübingen, Göttingen and Bonn.

Bredt worked in the civil service in 1903-09 and in 1910 was appointed to a professorship for jurisprudence at Marburg university.

From 1924 to 1932, he was the parliamentary leader of the Reich Party of the German Middle Class (which he had co-founded) in the Reichstag.

He also held various honorary and political positions on a local (Marburg) and regional (Hesse-Nassau) level.