Hermann von Wedderkop (1875–1956) was a German author. He also served as editor of Der Querschnitt. Wedderkop was an legal assessor in Cologne. He met Alfred Flechtheim in Paris in 1907, who was an art dealer and later founder of Der Querschnitt. In 1912 he wrote a small exhibition guide for the Sonderbund in Cologne. During World War I, Wedderkop was a civilian commissary of the German civilian administration in Brussels. Among others, he met Gottfried Benn and and an affair with Yvonne George is said to him during that time.