Johannes Rudolf Georg Hans Döring (31 August 1901 – 2 July 1970) was a German Nazi Party politician, SS-Brigadeführer and officer in the Waffen-SS.

[2] Döring transferred from the SA to the SS on 6 January 1929 (membership number 1,327) becoming an early member of this elite Nazi organization.

His next posting was as the commander of Abschnitt XXII in Allenstein (today, Olsztyn, Poland) where he remained until 15 March 1936.

[4] On 10 June 1941, Döring joined the Waffen-SS, serving with the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) and being commissioned an Untersturmführer of reserves on 9 November 1941.

[5] During his tenure as SSPF, the German security forces forced the Jews of the Stalino region into ghettos, and Einsatzgruppe C subsequently conducted mass killing of the inhabitants, as the following illustrates: In 1939, the Jews numbered 24,991 (total population 466,268) … On October 20, 1941, the town was occupied by the Germans, who held it until September 8, 1943.

A large ghetto was set up and its inhabitants were kept without food or medical aid, with hundreds dying every day.

Promoted to Hauptsturmführer of reserves on 20 April 1944, he served as a company and battalion commander in the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS in Italy and Hungary until the end of the war in Europe on 8 May 1945.