Volker Bierbrauer (born 19 September 1940) is a German archaeologist and historian.
Volker Bierbrauer was born in Kirn, Germany on 19 September 1940. He received his PhD in prehistory and ancient history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in 1969. He obtained his habilitation in 1977. In 1979, Bierbrauer was appointed as faculty at the University of Bonn. From 1990 to 2006, he was Chair of Prehistory and Protohistory at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
Bierbrauer is notable for his research on the archaeology of the Goths and Lombards, and the question of continuity between the classical and medieval period.
Bierbrauer was a Member of the Steering Committee of the Transformation of the Roman World project, which was sponsored by the European Science Foundation. In 2005, he became a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.