Wolf-Dieter Hütteroth (born 28 November 1930 in Chojna, died 9 November 2010) was a German geographer and researcher.
[1] He obtained his doctorate in Marburg in 1958 with a thesis supervised by Kurt Scharlau,[2] and in 1966 was habilitated at the University of Göttingen.
From 1967 he was a lecturer with civil servant status at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg.
He was mainly concerned with general historical geography, regional studies of the Islamic Orient and geomorphological processes.
In February 2009, the Marburg Department of Geography awarded him the "Golden Doctoral Certificate"[3] His papers (11 boxes) are kept at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig.