Pottum is an Ortsgemeinde – a community belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Pottum lies 5 km northeast of Westerburg on the Wiesensee (lake), near Stahlhofen am Wiesensee. Since 1972 it has belonged to what was then the newly founded Verbandsgemeinde of Westerburg, a kind of collective municipality. Its seat is in the like-named town.

In 1062, Pottum, or Patheim, later Pothump, had its first documentary mention.

The municipal council is made up of 17 council members, including the extraofficial mayor (Bürgermeister), who were elected in a majority vote in a municipal election on 13 June 2004.

• Annegret Held (writer)
• Prof. Dr.- Ing. Helmut Hoyer (Rector of the Fernuniversität Hagen)
• Erich Müller (well known within the community due to his efforts in the local council and fire brigade)

• Pottum (in German)
• Photo of Pottum am Wiesensee (in German)