Fritz Tobias (born October 3, 1912 in Charlottenburg, †January 1, 2011 in Hannover) was a German author, government official and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
He was most recently Ministerialrat in the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior, where he belonged to the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Lower Saxony.In the 1960s, he became known by his statements to the Reichstag fire.
As "amateur historian" Fritz Tobias had taken the trouble to explore the history of the events in Berlin on February 27, 1933.
According to Tobias controversial findings the Nazis were not guilty and the historically significant arson would have been the action of Marinus van der Lubbe as a single perpetrator.