Magnus Otto Bridges von Levetzow (8 January 1871 – 13 March 1939) was a German naval officer who rose to the rank of Konteradmiral.

In 1916 Levetzow was appointed Chief of Operations of the High Seas Fleet staff and was involved in the planning for the Battle of Jutland.

Large parts of the crews refused this order, sensing the futility of such an action in view of the impending German defeat.

In 1931 Levetzow joined the Nazi Party and, in the 1932 German presidential election, he supported Adolf Hitler over the incumbent Paul von Hindenburg.

Levetzow typified the conservative aristocrats who, due to their fierce opposition to the liberal democratic Weimar Republic, joined forces with the Nazis.

In this post, Levetzow played a key role in purging the Berlin police of Nazi opponents and in setting up the Gestapo under Rudolf Diels.

On 13 July 1935, the Party publicized an incident in which Jewish patrons booed a film with antisemitic themes at a Berlin movie theater.

That evening the so-called "Kurfürstendamm riots" took place, in which 200 Nazis vandalized Jewish-owned businesses and randomly and violently assaulted Jews on the street and in cafes along the fashionable thoroughfare.

[8] This attracted much international condemnation and Goebbels, who had helped instigate the outburst of violence, skillfully deflected the responsibility onto Levetzow, whom Der Angriff blamed for a failure to maintain public order.