Ludwig Woltmann (born 18 February 1871 in Solingen; died 30 January 1907) was a German anthropologist, zoologist and Marxist theoretician.
Ludwig Woltmann falls in the spiritual and ideological history of the 20th century with the racial theorists Arthur de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, in particular in terms of his racial theoretical thought. His ideas were mainly published by the journal Political-Anthropological Review (1902-1907) and in the book Political Anthropology written in 1903. This and two other of his books were published in a 1936 Otto Reche anthology.
1898: System of moral consciousness, with a special presentation of the ratio of the critical philosophy to Darwinism and Socialism1899: The Darwinian theory and socialism. A contribution to the natural history of human society1900: Historical materialism. Presentation and critique of the Marxist world outlook1900: Pilgrimage. Sketches from Palestine1901: The position of social democracy to religion1903: Political Anthropology. A study on the influence of the theory of evolution on the doctrine of the political development of peoples1903: Are the Goths under assumed in Italy?1904: Racial psychology and cultural history1904: The physical type of Immanuel Kant1905: The Germans and the Renaissance in Italy1905: Marxism and race theory1905: Recent literature on racial theory1906 : For the German question in the Italian Renaissance1906: The Germans in Spain1907: The Germans in France. A study on the influence of the Germanic race on the history and culture of France1908: Klemm and Gobineau1924: Youth poemsWolfhard Hammer, The Life and Work of the Physician and Social Anthropologist Ludwig Woltmann. Univ. Diss, Mainz 1979.Jürgen Mixing, The Political Philosophy of Ludwig Woltmann. In the Field of Tension between Kantianism's Historical Materialism and Social Darwinism, Bonn 1975Sebastian Pella, The Social Darwinism-bred Theoretical Thinking in Ludwig Woltmann's Artwork, Political Anthropology, Bottrop 2009. 
