Paul Franken (27 June 1894 – Autumn 1944) was a German Socialist politician.Following regime change in 1933, his party was banned and he fled.
He lived in various countries before settling in the Soviet Union, where in 1936 he was briefly arrested.
He was arrested again in 1937 in one of Stalin's political purges.
He was detained for the next seven years and is believed to have died in a labour camp in the northern part of European Russia during the Autumn of 1944.