Hans Ehlich

Hans Ehlich (born 1 July 1901, in Leipzig – 30 March 1991 in Braunschweig) was a doctor and SS-Standartenführer (colonel) of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Ehlich graduated from high school in Chemnitz in 1920 and then began to study medicine and dentistry in Leipzig and Würzburg.

At the "Intelligence action", the by the "Einsatzgruppen der Sicherheitspolizei" at the Raid on Poland, Ehlich was taken in on September/October 1939 as a member of Task Force V. In a meeting of the head of the RSHA Reinhard Heydrich on the 30th, January 1940, it was stipulated that according to the proposal of Ehlich and Eichmann in favor of the Baltic and Volhynia Germans, 160,000 Poles and Jews from the annexed Polish territories should be deported to the General Government.

Shortly before end of war in Berlin, the remaining officers in the RSHA, including Ehlich destroyed incriminating documents and established new identities.

In October 1948, he was condemned as a former member of the SS, defined at Nuremberg as being a criminal organization, and sentenced to one year and nine months in prison.