Otto Kinne (born 1923) is a German marine biologist. He was director of Germany's Biologische Anstalt Helgoland from 1962 to 1984. Since 1967 he has been a Professor at the University of Kiel. He established the Inter-Research Science Center (IRSC) and the International Ecology Institute in 1984, becoming the President of each organisation. The IRSC publishes eight international journals of which Kinne is the founder, including Climate Research. He established the Otto Kinne Foundation in 1992 to provide grants to ecologists in Russia and Eastern Europe.[1]