Bretschneider is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andreas Bretschneider (born 1989), German artistic gymnast Carl Anton Bretschneider (1808–1878), German mathematician Bretschneider's formula, for the area of a quadrilateral Emil Bretschneider (1833–1901), German sinologist Frank Bretschneider (born 1956), German electronic musician Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider (1739–1810), German satirical writer Johann Michael Bretschneider (1680–1729), German painter Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider (1776–1848), German scholar and theologian Sylvia Bretschneider (1960–2019), German educator and politician
Fictional characters Police agent Bretschneider from The Good Soldier Švejk
See also
Brettschneider, a variant spelling