Max Ernst Opitz (September 11, 1890 – January 7, 1982) was a German politician and Holocaust survivor.

After his discharge from the army, he became a founding member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1919.

In 1932, Opitz was elected to the Landtag of Prussia, where he would remain until the Nazi Party seized power in 1933.

[4] On February 7, 1933, Opitz took part in an illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the KPD in the Sporthaus Ziegenhals in Berlin.

On November 2, 1933, he was arrested in Stuttgart and sentenced to three years and one month in prison in 1934 for "preparing to commit high treason".

After serving his prison sentence, he was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp by the Gestapo in October 1941.