| Birth Date: | 9 December 1948 |
| Birth Place: | Germany |
| Workplaces: | German Armed Forces Military History Research Office |
| Era: | 20th century |
| Occupation: | Historian, author, editor |
| Main Interests: | Modern European history, military history, historiography |
| Major Works: | Germany and the Second World War Hitler's War in the East 1941−1945 |
Rolf-Dieter Müller (born 9 December 1948) is a German military historian and political scientist,[1] who has served as Scientific Director of the German Armed Forces Military History Research Office since 1999. Rolf-Dieter Müller is also a former professor of military history at Humboldt University.[2]
Müller, in cooperation with German journalist Rudibert Kunz, is known for being the first historian to write about the use of chemical weapons in the Rif War in a 1990 book titled Giftgas Gegen Abd El Krim: Deutschland, Spanien und der Gaskrieg in Spanisch-Marokko, 1922-1927.
Müller was one of the lead researchers on the seminal work Germany and the Second World War.