Wolfgang Vogel (8 February 1940 – 2 October 1996) was a German mathematician who made contributions to commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.
[1] In 1968 Vogel became a mathematics student at the Halle University.
After finishing his degree in 1963 he worked as research scientist at the universities of Halle, Berlin and Innsbruck.
In 1993 he was appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics, at Massey University.
He died of cancer in Palmerston North at the age of 56.