Wilhelm Meisel (4 November 1891 – 7 September 1974) was an Admiral of the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Meisel was born in Zwickau and joined the Navy as a midshipman in 1913.

He later served as a staff officer on Torpedo boats and was interned in Scapa Flow.

After the scuttling of the High Seas Fleet he was held as a POW by the British and repatriated in 1921.

During World War II Meisel commanded a destroyer flotilla in the invasion of Poland of 1939 and was appointed commander of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper in 1940.