Johannes Beutler SJ (3 October 1933 – 6 November 2024) was a German theologian and Catholic priest.

[3] He studied philosophy further at the Berchmanskolleg in Pullach from 1956 to 1958,[4] and then worked for two years as an educator at the Aloisiuskolleg in Bad Godesberg.

[4][3][1] He was trained in Jesuit matters in Wéplon, Belgium, and completed his studies in Rome from 1965 to 1971, with a PhD in Frankfurt in 1972.

He was chaplain of the Jugendbund Neudeutschland youth organisation[2][3] and signed the memorandum "Kirche 2011 : Ein notwendiger Aufbruch".

[8] He was also a priest for imprisoned people, at the Opus Spiritus Sanci in Königstein-Mammolshain and in internal Jesuit education.