Walter von Boetticher (11 December 1853 – 3 July 1945) was a German historian, genealogist and physician.

[1] After attending the Dresden Kreuzgymnasium (School of the Cross), he studied medicine at Würzburg, Marburg and Jena from 1873 to 1877, receiving his doctorate in 1878 with the thesis Über Reflexhemmung (On Reflex Inhibition).

He published numerous essays on the history of Upper Lusatia and its nobility, and, between 1912 and 1923, his life's work the Geschichte des Oberlausitzischen Adels und seiner Güter 1635–1815 (History of the Upper Lusatian Nobility and its Estates 1635–1815), which was published in four volumes.

In 1904 Boetticher was entered in the Saxon Adelsmatrikel (Register of nobility), and in 1905 was made an honorary member of the Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences).

Boetticher died on 3 July 1945 at Radebeul and was interred in the municipal cemetery at Bautzen.