Johann Pauls (9 February 1908 – 4 July 1946) was a German SS-Oberscharführer in Stutthof concentration camp.

Thereafter, as an SS-Oberscharführer, he was commandant of the guards in Stutthof concentration camp until the end of the war in 1945.

He was tried in the first Stutthof Trial by the Soviet/Polish Special Criminal Court, which was held in Gdańsk (Danzig) from 25 April 1946 to 31 May 1946.

In the company of 12 other guards and kapos, he was convicted of war crimes, along with 10 other accused, and sentenced to death.

Pauls was executed by short-drop hanging on 4 July 1946 at Polish: Wysoka Górka (German: Stolzenberg).