Otto Ambros during his postwar process
Otto Ambros (Weiden in Oberpfalz, May 19, 1901 - Mannheim, July 23, 1990) was a German chemist and convicted war criminal.
After his promotion at Nobel Prize winner Richard Willstätter, he worked with IG Farben from 1936, where he was involved in chemical warfare. He is the discoverer of sarin and soman. In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP. In 1944 he received the Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes.
He was managed by the chemical plant in Dyhernfurth, where sarin and soman were produced, and from the Gendorf plant where mustard gas was made. In 1948 he gained eight years in the IG Farben process in Nuremberg as head of the camp KZ Auschwitz III Monowitz and the deployment of forced labor. Of these he spent only a few years: in 1952 he was released early.
After that, he worked with several companies, including Chemie Grünenthal, producer of thalidomide, Knoll and Telefunken. He was also an adviser to, among others, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
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