Wolfgang Heine (3 May 1861 – 9 May 1944) was a German jurist and social democratic politician.

Heine was born in Posen, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia (Poznań, Poland) to Otto Heine, a grammar school teacher at the Maria-Magdalena-Gymnasium in Breslau (Wrocław, Poland), and Meta née Bormann.

[3] Heine was criticized for his attempt to negotiate during the Kapp Putsch of March 1920 and lost his position in the Prussian government.

From 1923 to 1925 he was a judge at the German Constitutional Court (Staatsgerichtshof) and continued to work as a lawyer in Berlin.

[4][5][6] At the beginning of the Nazi regime, Heine fled to Switzerland and died in Ascona.