Hans Stark (14 June 1921 – 29 March 1991) was an SS-Untersturmführer and head of the admissions detail at Auschwitz-II Birkenau of Auschwitz concentration camp.

[1] He had a strict upbringing at the hands of his father, who as a police officer, gave his sons a "typically Prussian education".

[2] However, Stark failed to live up to his father's academic expectations, and thus it was decided that the young man needed firmer guidance.

[2] Stark left the Realgymnasium in 1937 in the seventh year to apply for Reichsarbeitsdienst or Wehrmacht, but both rejected him due to his age.

SS-Totenkopfstandarte "Brandenburg") in December as its youngest recruit with the written permission of his father, as the SS accepted 16 year old applicants.

[4] At the rank of SS-Unterscharführer, he was posted to Auschwitz at the end of 1940 and worked as a Blockführer (Block leader).

[4] From Christmas 1941 to March 1942, Stark returned to his home town and took his final exams as an external candidate at the Justus-Liebig-Gymnasium.

Stark admitted to the shooting of prisoners at Auschwitz:On one occasion I took an active part in an execution.

At that time some twenty to thirty Russian Commissars had been delivered by the Gestapo regional headquarters in Kattowitz (Katowice).

Grabner, Palitsch, the above-mentioned Blockführer and I took it in turns to shoot these twenty to thirty Commissars one after the other.

Their bodies were piled up in a corner of the yard by prisoners from the bunker, if I remember correctly, and put into chests.

[6] In a similar manner to his participation in the shootings, Stark stated that he was ordered by Grabner to check the number of prisoners.

He attained his desired career as a commissioned officer when, after attending an SS-Junkerschule, he was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer in November 1944.

He continued his studies with work experience and teaching practice (Vorbereitungsdienst) with the Hessian Agricultural Ministry, and in 1953, the year of his marriage (from which he had two children), he passed the exam to qualify as an assessor.

[failed verification] Stark's father committed suicide after the war, out of guilt for having allowed his son to join the SS.