Richard Stücklen (20 August 1916 – 2 May 2002) was a German politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU).

A member of the German parliament for more than 40 years, he served as the seventh president of the Bundestag from 1979 to 1983.

He was drafted into the Reichsarbeitsdienst in 1936 and later into the Wehrmacht, where he served as a soldier in World War II from 1940 to 1943, when he was released as unfit for service due to a knee injury.

[1] After the end of World War II in 1945, Stücklen was one of the founders of the CSU in Heideck and in Hilpoltstein.

On 1 December 1966, Stücklen left office and was replaced by Werner Dollinger in Kurt Georg Kiesinger's grand coalition cabinet.