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Hans Heinrich Lammers ( German ; Hans Heinrich Lammers ; Born ; 27 May 1879 in Lubliniec, Silesia, Prussia, Germany (Today Poland )–Died ; 4 January 1962 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany) was a Nazi German politician and a cruel Nazi War Criminal . He was a member of Hitler 's Cabinet he was also a SS-Obergruppenführer in ...

Hans Heinrich Lammers (1879-1962) served as Chief of the Reich Chancellery from 1933 to 1945 and was Hitler's closest legal consultant. Born in the town of Lublintz in Upper Silesia in May of 1879, Lammers studied law and was named a county court judge in Beuthen in 1912.

Hans Heinrich Lammers (27 May 1879 – 4 January 1962) was a German jurist and prominent Nazi Party politician. From 1933 until 1945 he served as Chief of the Reich Chancellery under Adolf Hitler. In 1937, he additionally was given the post of Reichsminister in the cabinet.

Karl Brandt, doctor to Hitler and Hans Lammers, the head of the Reich Chancellery, testified after the war that Hitler had told them as early as 1933—when the sterilisation law was passed—that he favoured the killing of the incurably ill but recognised that public opinion would not accept this.

Hans Lammers was a senior official in Nazi Germany. Lammers had a legal background and held the positions of Reich Minister and State Secretary in the Reich Chancellery. After World War Two, Lammers was arrested and tried at Nuremberg and charged with giving anti-Jewish legislation a legal basis.