| Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig | |
| Office: | Federal Minister of Justice |
| Term Start: | 17 January 1996 |
| Term End: | 26 October 1998 |
| Chancellor: | Helmut Kohl |
| Predecessor: | Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger |
| Successor: | Herta Däubler-Gmelin |
| Birth Date: | 8 October 1941 |
| Birth Place: | Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| Party: | Free Democratic |
| Alma Mater: | University of Hannover |
| Profession: | Jurist |
| Website: | www.uni-kiel.de/oeffrecht/schmidt-jortzig/ |
Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig (born 8 October 1941) is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair for public law at the University of Kiel. A member of the Free Democratic Party, he served as Federal Minister of Justice in the Fifth Kohl cabinet between 1996 and 1998.
Born in Berlin, Schmidt-Jortzig was raised in Lüneburg, Lower Saxony. He studied law and received his first Staatsexamen in 1966, and the second in 1969. In 1984, he became a professor of public law at the University of Kiel and joined the Free Democratic Party.
In the 1994 German federal election, he earned a seat in the Bundestag, and in 1996, he succeeded Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger as Federal Minister of Justice of Germany.