Claus Grote (born 8.08.1927) is a German experimental physicist, a member of the GDR Academy of Sciences (1974) and General Secretary of the GDR Academy of Sciences (from 1972). He was born in Bückeburg (now in the FRG). He graduated from the Humboldt University in Berlin (1957). Since 1956 he has worked at the Institute of High Energy Physics of the GDR Academy of Sciences and taught at the Humboldt University (professor from 1970). In 1963 he worked at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna.
His research concerns nuclear physics and high-energy physics, in particular the technique of nuclear emulsions and bubble chambers, the study of the interactions of high-energy mesons and nucleons, and meson resonances.