Friedrich Wilhelm Beuttel (10 August 1900 – 27 July 1944) was a German communist and resistance fighter against Nazism.
[1] After returning to Germany, he became organizational head of the Frankfurt am Main branch of the KPD and was elected to the state parliament of Hesse in 1932.
There, he took over the leadership of the Rote Hilfe, a communist aid organization supporting leftist victims of political repression.
He was transferred from Paris to Amsterdam in 1936, and went underground before German troops invaded and occupied the Netherlands in 1940, while his partner, Maria Rentmeister, was arrested by the Gestapo.
[2] In the late summer of 1942, Beuttel returned to Germany in order to support the anti-Nazi resistance struggle.