Paul Götze[1] (13 November 1903 – 24 January 1948) was an SS-Rottenführer at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

[2] Born in Halle, German Empire, Götze was a painter by profession.

In July 1942 he was posted to Auschwitz, where he initially served as a guard and supervisor of work groups.

Although prisoners held Götze as a reasonable man out of SS men at the camp [citation needed], he took an active part in the killing of Jews and prisoners unable to work in the Birkenau gas chambers, such as assisting with the loading and unloading of people marked for gassing when large numbers of people were marked for extermination.

Götze was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal at the Auschwitz Trial in Kraków and was sentenced to death.