Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen (born 12 September 1944 in Seefeld in Tirol) is a German ethnologist and sociologist.
At the University of Bielefeld habilitated in 1982 with the sociological paper Peasants in Mexico, between subsistence and commodity production.
At the University of Bielefeld, she established the subject "Women and the Third World" as a temporary professor over a period of five years (1983-88).
In 1997 she was appointed honorary professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna.
She is director of the private Institute for Theory and Practice of Subsistence e. V. (ITPS) in Bielefeld.