Butz Peters (born 22 January 1958 in Hanover) is a German television presenter and jurist who presented Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst from 1997 to 2001. He is the author of four bestsellers (among others Tödlicher Irrtum – Die Geschichte der RAF, Fatal error – The History of the RAF), which mainly deal with the theme of left wing terrorism in post war Germany. From 1994 till 1996 he worked as screenwriter for the ARD gossip magazine Brisant, in 1993/1994 he was editor in chief of the radio station Antenne Sachsen.