Wenzel Jaksch (25 September 1896 – 27 November 1966) was a Sudeten German Social Democrat politician and the president of the Federation of Expellees in 1964 to 1966.

[1] Jaksch was born in Langstrobnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Horní Stropnice, Czech Republic), and started to work as a construction worker in the age of 14 in Vienna.

After World War I he started to work as a journalist for a German language Social-Democratic newspaper in Czechoslovakia.

[1] In 1929 he was elected as a member of the Parliament of Czechoslovakia in Prague representing the German Social Democratic Workers Party in the Czechoslovak Republic, of which he became the chairman in 1938.

[1][3] During the war Jaksch's relations with the Czechs became strained as he opposed acknowledging the pre-Munich borders of Czechoslovakia of his homeland.