Hubertus Brandenburg (17 November 1923 – 4 November 2009) was a Catholicbishop of Stockholm. He was ordained priest in Osnabrück on 20 December 1952. On 12 December 1974, he was appointed by PopePaul VI asauxiliary bishop ofOsnabrück. On 21 November 1977, he was appointed as Bishop ofStockholm. He resigned in 1998, and was succeeded by BishopAnders Arborelius.

Brandenburg was born inOsnabrück,Germany, in 1923. After graduation at theCarolinum High School in Osnabrück, he was drafted into military service. As a Marine soldier, he rose to speed boat commander. Brandenburg studied law and economics after the war. He then moved to the Catholic Theology Faculty of theUniversity of Münster. Ordained a priest in 1952, he was a chaplain in Hamburg Winterhude 1955 to 1958, and completed a PhD in Rome. In 1967 he was appointed a canon, then appointed to the finance director in Osnabruck.

In 1974, Brandenburg was appointed Titular Bishop ofStrathernia andauxiliary bishop ofOsnabrück by Pope Paul VI. He was consecrated by Bishop Helmut Hermann Wittler on 26 January 1975, co-consecrators were the Curia Bishop and President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications,Andrzej Maria Deskur, and Auxiliary Bishop of OsnabrückJohn Albert von Rudloff.

On 13 May 1972 Brandenburg was invested in theOrder of the Holy Sepulchre. In 1976, he became a member of theSovereign Military Order of Malta.^{[citation needed]}

In 1977 he was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Stockholm. He was a longtime vice chairman of the Nordic Bishops Conference. After his retirement, Brandenburg lived first inHelsingborg, before returning to his home town of Osnabrück.

Since 1946, Brandenburg was a member of the Catholic fraternity KDSt.V. Sauerlandia Munster, a Catholic student fraternity that belongs to theCartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen. He was a grandson of member of the GermanReichstagCarl Brandenburg, who succeededLudwig Windthorst from 1891 to 1902 representing the constituency ofMeppen in the Reichstag.

Brandenburg died aged 85 in Osnabrück.

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