Richard Falck (7 May 1873 – 1 January 1955) was a German-American botanist and mycologist, who worked as a professor of mycology at the forest academy in Hannoversch Münden before he fled Nazi Germany and the persecution of Jews to finally settle in the United States of America.

Little is known of Richard's early years but he lived in Ledyczek until the age of 16,[1] went to Progymnasium in Debrzno, trained as a pharmacist, and in 1899 he passed the examination of food chemists at Göttingen.

He married Breslau mycologist Olga Schenkalowski in 1910, shortly after his appointment as a professor of mycology at the Königlich Preußische Forstakademie.

During this period he obtained a patent for the "Falkamesam Process" of preserving wood, on which he had collaborated with the Indian researcher Sonti Kamesam.

[3] An allegation of tax evasion was made by a member of the Göttingen National Socialists as he had filed many of his patents in Poland.

In 1947 he was rehabilitated and awarded the rights of a retired professor and reparations were ordered but he received payments only in 1954, a year before he died in Atlanta, Georgia.