Rüdiger Wittig (born October 17, 1946 in Herne, West Germany) is a professor of geobotany and ecology at the Goethe University Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Until the completion of his postdoctoral lecture qualification in 1980, he was a research associate at the Wilhelms-University in Münster.
From 1980 until 1988, Wittig was professor for botany at the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf and chair of the department for geobotany at the Institute for Plant Physiology.
In 2002, a specific type of blackberry was named after Rüdiger Wittig: Rubus wittigianus.
Wittig has published over 250 books and articles, including: