Max Pauly

{{Short description|SS officer (1907–1946)}}

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| name = Max Pauly

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| 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, Hamelin, Allied-occupied Germany

| death_cause = Execution by hanging

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| allegiance = {{flag|Nazi Germany}}

| branch = 23px Schutzstaffel
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| rank = SS Standartenführer

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| criminal_penalty = Death

| criminal_status = Executed

| conviction = War crimes

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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.

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. He was never tried for the crimes committed at Stutthof.{{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}}