Oskar von Hutier (27 August 1857 – 5 December 1934) was one of Imperial Germany's most successful and innovative generals of World War I.

Hutier was born in Erfurt, in the Prussian Province of Saxony. He spent the first year of the war as a divisional commander in France, performing well but not distinguishing himself until the spring of 1915, when he was transferred to the Eastern Front. There he became a corps commander attached to the German Tenth Army, and helped that force conquer large parts of Russian-ruled Poland and Lithuania during the next two years.

Rising to army command early in 1917, Hutier began to apply the lessons learned from his three years of commanding troops, as well as his study of tactics of other armies. He devised a new strategy for the Germans to break the stalemate of trench warfare. His tactics were so successful in 1917 and 1918 that the French named them "Hutier tactics", although today they are called "infiltration tactics".

Hutier saw that the conventional method of launching an attack, with a lengthy artillery barrage all along the line followed by an assault from massed infantry, was leading to disastrous losses. He suggested an alternative approach, which consisted of these basic steps: