Franz Ferdinand Ludwig Palatz (* 18 July 1896 in Hamburg; † 12 June 1945 in Chelyabinsk) was a German chess composer and head of the problem section of the Deutsche Schachblätter.

Palatz composed more than 500 chess problems, mainly two-move and multi-move problems. He received a prize for many of them. However, he also dealt with auxiliary mates, rarely with studies.

Publications
Grimshaw's double use, Deutsches Wochenschach 1918 p. 121
Antiturton, Zepler and the antiform, Deutsches Wochenschach 1923 p. 77
Classification of move-change problems, Deutsches Wochenschach 1925 p. 41
The two-king problem, Deutsches Wochenschach 1925 p. 57
Antiform, Berlin 1929 (together with Alfred Mongredien)
Miniatures Stratègiques, Paris 1935
The new two-mover, Prague 1943
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Compositions by Franz Palatz on the Schwalbe PDB server
Individual references
 Short portrait in: Aachener Anzeiger, 15 October 1932, p. 22
 Hartmut Laue: Franz Palatz (1896-1945) in Die Schwalbe, issue 326, April 2024, p. 477 ff
 Frank Ferdinand Ludwig Palatz. German Chess Federation, retrieved on 6 July 2021.