Wolfgang Schluchter (born 4 April 1938 in Ludwigsburg, Germany) is a German sociologist and, as of 2006, professor emeritus at Heidelberg University.
Schluchter is recognized as a leading sociologist of religion and an authority on the history of sociological theory, in particular on the work of Max Weber.
[1] He was one of the editors of the Max Weber-Gesamtausgabe [de], alongside Wolfgang J. Mommsen and Johannes Winckelmann [de].
Gangolf Hübinger [de] succeeded Mommsen after he died in 2004.
The project was completed in June 2020, with forty-seven volumes.