Andreas Freytag (born October 23, 1962 in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein) is a German economist. He currently holds the chair for political economics at the University of Jena.Freytag earned his Diplom in economics from the University of Kiel in 1990, where he studied under Herbert Giersch. In 1994, he completed his doctoral degree in economics under supervision of Juergen B. Donges at the University of Cologne.