Martin Elsaesser (28 May 1884 – 5 August 1957) was a German architect and professor of architecture.

[1][2] In 1905 he won the competition for the Lutheran church of Baden-Baden and started to be active as a freelance architect.

From 1911 to 1913, he served as an assistant to Professor Paul Bonatz, at Stuttgart Technical University.

[1] From 1920 to 1925, he was managing director of the School of Arts and Crafts at Cologne (later known as the Kölner Werkschulen).

Nonetheless, he did not opt for emigration; instead he spent the war years in internal exile, pursuing architectural study tours and utopian designs.