Friedrich-Wilhelm Richter (1892–1971) was a general in the Wehrmacht during World War II.

In 1913, one year before the beginning of the First World War, he joined the German army at the age of 21.

After 1918 he remained in the army and continued his military career in the reduced and disarmed Reichswehr.

In March 1943 he took command of the 716th Infantry Division in Normandy, whose job was to protect the French coast against an Allied amphibious assault.

Richter's section lay west of Bayeux, where the 352nd Infantry Division was stationed from May 1944, and east of Caen.