Heinrich Böschen (born 27 October 1887; presumed to have died following disappearance on 31 December 1945) was a German Communist politician and trades unionist. During the Nazi period he was detained by the state: by the end of the war he and disappeared. In the continuing absence of information on what had happened to him, 1959 it was deemed for the administrative convenience of government authorities that he had died, officially on 31 December 1945.