Emanuel Kaspar (born 25 July 1915 in Berlin, died 6 February 1971 in Kamen) was a German organic chemist. He is known for inventing and patenting the synthesis of clocortolone with Rainer Philippson in 1973. The original assignee of the patent was Schering AG. Kaspar held a PhD (Dr.rer.nat.) and worked as a researcher at Schering AG. He was also a co-inventor of several other patents held by Schering.Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, vols. 92–111, p. 437, C.A. Starke, 1989 He married fellow chemist Elisabeth Barbara Hilda Vogt von Hunoltstein (born 1923) in Wiesbaden in 1948.
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