{{Short description|SS officer (1907–1946)}} {{Infobox criminal | name = Max Pauly | image = Max Pauly (cropped).png | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = 1 June 1907 | birth_place = Wesselburen, German Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1946|10|8|1907|6|1}} | death_place = Hamelin Prison, Allied-occupied Germany | module = {{Infobox military person |embed=yes | allegiance = Nazi Germany | branch = ''Schutzstaffel''<br>''SS-Totenkopfverbände'' | rank = SS-''Standartenführer'' }} | criminal_penalty = Death | criminal_status = Executed by hanging | conviction = War crimes }} '''Max Pauly''' (1 June 1907 – 8 October 1946) was an SS-''Standartenführer'' who was the commandant of Stutthof concentration camp from September 1939 to August 1942 and commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp and the associated subcamps from September 1942 until liberation in May 1945. He lived on site with his family. Prior to his assignment at the camps, Pauly had presided over the executions of Polish POWs captured after the Defence of the Polish Post Office in Danzig.<ref name="Klee2007"/>
Pauly was tried by the British for war crimes with 13 others in the ''Curio Haus'' in Hamburg which was located in the British occupied sector of Germany. The trial lasted from 18 March to 13 May 1946. He was found guilty and sentenced to death with 11 other defendants.<ref name="Klee2007"/> He was never tried for the crimes committed at Stutthof.<ref name="Grabowska">{{cite web|url=http://kki.net.pl/~museum/rozdz13.htm |title=Odpowiedzialność za Zbrodnie Popełnione w Stutthofie. Procesy|publisher=KL Stutthof, Monografia|date=22 January 2009|accessdate=12 November 2014|author=Janina Grabowska|format=Internet Archive|trans-title=Responsibility for the Atrocities Committed at Stutthof. The trials.|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122201600/http://kki.net.pl/~museum/rozdz13.htm|archivedate=22 January 2009}}</ref>
==Execution== Pauly was executed by hanging by Albert Pierrepoint in Hamelin Prison on 8 October 1946.<ref name="Klee2007">Ernst Klee: The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich persons: who came before and after 1945. Publisher: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007. {{ISBN|978-3-596-16048-8}}.</ref><ref>The SS: Alibi of a Nation, 1922–1945 Publisher: Da Capo Press (21 March 1989) Language: English {{ISBN|0-306-80351-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0306803512}}.</ref>
==Legacy== Pauly is mentioned under the name of "Hans" in Simon Wiesenthal's 1967 book, ''The Murderers Among Us'' (ch. 22, "The Other Side of the Moon").
==See also== * Sachsenhausen concentration camp * SS Cap Arcona (1927) ocean liner * Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig
==Notes and references== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120214024900/http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/index.php?id=1004 Neuengamme Museum] *{{YouTube|uvnODk9be4A|Neuengamme Video}}
{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box |before=None |after=SS-''Sturmbannführer'' Paul-Werner Hoppe |title= Commandant of Stutthof concentration camp |years=September 1939 – August 1942 }} {{succession box |before=SS-''Hauptsturmführer'' Martin Gottfried Weiss |after=''Camp liberated'' |title= Commandant of Neuengamme concentration camp |years=September 1942 – 4 May 1945 }} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pauly, Max}} Category:1907 births Category:1946 deaths Category:Curiohaus trials executions by hanging Category:Executed German mass murderers Category:Executed Nazi concentration camp commandants Category:Executed people from Schleswig-Holstein Category:German perpetrators of prisoner-of-war massacres in World War II Category:Holocaust perpetrators in Poland Category:Neuengamme concentration camp personnel Category:People from the Province of Schleswig-Holstein Category:People from Wesselburen Category:SS-Standartenführer Category:Stutthof concentration camp personnel Category:Waffen-SS personnel