Roman Erich Petsche (3 February 1907 – 1993) was an Austrian teacher, painter, and Wehrmacht officer who is recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for aiding a Jewish family in Novi Sad.

After graduating from high school in Salzburg in 1925, Petsche began attending the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied under Rudolf Jettmar and Wilhelm Müller-Hofmann [de].

[1][3] After learning that the city's remaining Jewish population would be deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on 25 March 1944, Petsche decided to save Czarney's family.

Petsche's plan was for the two women to jump off the deportation train as it slowed for a switch near Vienna and then travel on foot to his home, where his wife was expecting them.

He preferred figurative motifs, which he almost exclusively created in a headstrong collage technique made out of colourful chalk drawings and light prints, that he called "Lumigraphie".