Michael Hans Lippert (24 April 1897 – 1 September 1969) was a mid-level commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II.

He and Theodor Eicke killed Sturmabteilung (SA) leader Ernst Röhm on 1 July 1934, during the Night of the Long Knives.

[1][2] In early 1934, Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders became concerned that Ernst Röhm, chief of the Sturmabteilung (SA), was planning a coup d'état.

The purge of the SA leadership and other enemies of the state began on 30 June in an action which became known as the Night of the Long Knives.

Accompanied by Lippert, and SS-Gruppenführer Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser, Eicke travelled to Stadelheim Prison in Munich where Röhm was being held.

On 12 May 1950, Lippert was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his complicity in the executions of Dutch civilians who were found in a "restricted area" without identity papers.

[11] In 1956, the Munich authorities began an investigation into the Night of the Long Knives and in August arrested Lippert and Dietrich for their part in it.