Otto Huth (9 May 1906 – 1998) was a German historian of religion and folklorist who was a member of the Ahnenerbe and held a professorial position at the Nazi Reichsuniversität Straßburg.
After completing his doctorate, he became Wirth's assistant and helped with the organisation of his 1933 exhibition, Der Heilbringer, on the supposed ancient spiritual heritage of the Nordic culture.
On 1 April 1942, he was appointed professor and head of the institute of religious science (Allgemeine Religionswissenschaft) at the Nazi Reichsuniversität Straßburg in Strasbourg in annexed Alsace,[1][2] where he led the main seminar for early history and antiquities.
For example, he participated as a re-education speaker with Walther Wüst at an SS camp near Strasbourg in an abortive attempt to persuade deported students from the University of Oslo to become collaborators.
His arguments were tautological; in Der Lichterbaum (1938), copies of which were presented by Heinrich Himmler to the members of his personal staff as Yule gifts in 1937, he interpreted the almost complete absence of attestations of Christmas trees prior to the late 19th century as evidence of Christian suppression of a Germanic precursor.