was a Nazi Party official and politician who served as Gauleiter of Gau Westmark in the closing months of the war.

Also that year he was appointed Gau Inspector and adjutant to Jakob Sprenger, the Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau, a position he would hold until 1937.

Then on 4 October, he was appointed Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung) for German-occupied Lorraine, although the area was already being overrun by the Allied armies.

[3] By 18 March 1945, the elements of the US 7th Army was threatening to overrun Stöhr's Gau and Hitler ordered that the entire population be immediately evacuated eastward.

As no logistical contingency planning had been done and the transportation system was in a state of total collapse, evacuating hundreds of thousands of civilians was considered to be next to impossible to execute.

According to the memoirs of Albert Speer, the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production, he met with Stöhr who categorically stated that he would not implement such an order.

Thus, he became one of the rare Gauleiters to survive the war and escape justice, never facing criminal prosecution or denazification courts.