Hans Delmotte (15 December 1917, in Liège – 1945) was a Nazi SS doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp in the branch of the Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS.
[1] Initially he refused to take part in selections, allegedly going as far as to tell his superiors "You can send me to the front or gas me myself, but I won't do it.
Delmotte's dissertation entitled "Contributions to pathological physiology of gastric secretion in typhoid fever" was already completed in 1944.
After the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945, Delmotte briefly continued to work in Dachau concentration camp.
During the transfer to a prison, Delmotte had somehow managed to shoot himself, he instantly died from his gunshot wound.