To provide a door handle device for an automobile, which disables the opening of a rear door when a front door is closed, and which enables a person sitting on a backseat to operate a rear door handle from inside a cabin so as to open the rear door, when the front door is opened.

This door handle device for the the automobile is mounted on hinged double doors, the rear door 6 of which is opened/closed when the front door 1 is opened; the rear door handle 8 for disengaging the rear door 6 and a car body from each other by operating an operation part 14a is mounted on a front end of an inside-cabin panel 6b of the rear door 6; and a blocking member 14c, which moves in response to the operation part 14a, abuts on the front door 1 in a closed state during an operation.