Johann Gockel-Ehrlich (Hans Gockel; Russian: Ганс Гансович Гоккель; 8 July 1896 − 11 March 1938) was an Austrian communist.

In 1923 Gockel-Ehrlich emigrated to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, where he became the first Austrian student at the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West in Moscow, which he left before the end of the one-year course.

Gockel-Ehrlich was arrested on 10 December 1933 for participating in a German counter-revolutionary organization, which allegedly sought to overthrow the Soviet regime by force of arms.

[5] He was convicted under Article 54 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR for allegedly maintaining relations with the German consulate and supporting Hitler’s agitation.

While in the camp, he was arrested on 19 December 1937 and sentenced on 5 January 1938 by the “troika” under the administration of the NKVD of the Arkhangelsk Oblast under articles 58–10 and 58-11 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to capital punishment.