Herta Gotthelf (6 June 1902 – 13 May 1963) was a German journalist and politician (SPD).Before 1933 she was editor in chief of the SPD women's magazine "Genossin".
After 1945 she worked in the Schumacher Office set up in 1945 in order to recreate the party by the man who became its first postwar leader.
Within the party executive, between 1946 and 1956, she can be described as "the main voice of SPD women's policies ...