Paul Schmitthenner (born Lauterburg, Elsass-Lothringen, Germany 15 December 1884 – 11 November 1972) was a German architect, city planner and Professor at the University of Stuttgart.

His belief that the traditional methods and styles in architecture revealed best the German character led to his appointment as expert group leader for fine arts in the Kampfbund.

In 1935, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels decreed that war memorials were not to list the names of Jewish soldiers.

In 1938, Schmitthenner, the rector at Stuttgart, wrote to the Baden Ministry of Culture that it was "intolerable that names of members of the Jewish race remain on plaques of the war dead ...

[2] He had to leave his chair at the University after the war without a pension and worked as an architect till the end of his life.