Karl Gutenberger (18 April 1905 – 8 July 1961) was a Nazi Party politician, SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS and the Police.

He was then elected to the Prussian Landtag in November 1932, serving until that body was abolished in October 1933, nine months after the Nazi seizure of power.

He successively commanded SA brigades 74 and 173 in Duisburg, 73 in Essen and 74 in Wesel between August 1933 and 12 December 1939 when he was assigned to SA-Gruppe Niederrhein.

Also in November 1944, he was appointed Inspector of Passive Resistance and Special Defense "West", heading the clandestine volunteer Werwolf forces in his jurisdiction.

[6] After the end of the war, Gutenberger was captured by American forces 10 May 1945 at Schloss Lopshorn in Lippe and handed over to British authorities.

Placed in internment, on 20 October 1948 a British military court in Hamburg sentenced him to twelve years in prison for the murder of foreign workers.

[8] A conviction on 16 March 1950 to a five-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity for his part in the murder of Allied airmen who had been shot down was later overturned on appeal in 1952.