Wolf-Dieter Dube (13 July 1934 – 9 September 2015)[1] was a German art historian.
Born in Schwerin, Dube studied art history, and received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen in 1963.
From 1983 to 1999 he was General Director of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
[2] After 1990, together with Günter Schade, he led the reunification of those collections of the National Museums that had been separated by the German division [de].
He gave the decisive impulse for the construction of the Gemäldegalerie am Kulturforum, and the opening of the Hamburger Bahnhof as a museum for contemporary art is also associated with his name.