Aenne Kurowski-Schmitz (born 26 March 1894 in St. Tönis in Krefeld; died 13 November 1968) was a German lawyer and diplomat. In 1914/15, she studied law at the Universities of Freiburg, Berlin and Bonn and in 1919, she received her doctorate in Bonn for Dr. Ing. jur.[1] She became one of the first government commissioners in Germany, as an assistant to Walter Siemers and Kurt Peschke, Kurowski-Schmitz participated (1947 to 1948) at the criminal defense of Eduard Houdremont in the Krupp process.[2]