Wilfried Krätzschmar (born 23 March 1944) is a German composer.
After his Abitur at the Julius-Ambrosius-Hülße-Gymnasium [de] he studied composition with Johannes Paul Thilman from 1962 to 1968, piano with Wolfgang Plehn and conducting with Klaus Zoephel at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
After this time he returned to the Dresden Academy of Music as an aspirant of Fritz Geißler.
In 1975 he took over artistically the Centre for the Promotion of Young Composers of the District of Dresden.
Among his students were Michael Flade, Arnulf Herrmann, Caspar René Hirschfeld, Alexander Keuk, Ekkehard Klemm, Uwe Krause, Rolf Thomas Lorenz, Christian Münch, Theodor Schubach and Sylke Zimpel.