Nieland, Hans Heinrich, born 03-10-1900 in Hagen, Westfalen, 
the son of the businessman Gustav Heinrich (born 13-05-1870) and his wife Emma “Emmy” Florentine, born Kobabe (she died in 1937). Hans was drafted into the Imperial Army 
in June 1918 just after his final examinations at modern grammar school. He remained a soldier until one month after the end of World War I, he was discharge in December 1918. From February 1919 he studied political science at the universities of Göttingen and Hamburg. After the end of his studies in July 1922 he worked as a commercial clerk for three years in two Hamburg export firms. Hereupon followed a job training in the local and provincial administration. Afterwards Nieland went to the small town Kirchhörde as a candidate for the career of a Westphalian bailiff. His political career started as a head of the district authority in his native town Hagen, later on Nieland became district president in Münster. In 1925 he received his doctorate in Hamburg. His doctoral thesis, completed in June 1925, was entitled “Power as a governmental concept of law: An analysis of the German Reich’s constitutional law situation under the rule of the Versailles Treaty” (German: “Die Macht als staatlicher Rechtsbegriff: Zugleich eine Untersuchung über die staatsrechtliche Stellung des Deutschen Reiches unter der Herrschaft des Versailler Vertrages”).
On 30-01-1926 Hans Nieland joined the NSDAP 
(membership number 33 333), became Bezirksführer/ District Leader, at home and then Sektionsführer/Section Leader) in Hamburg. Moreover, he entered the SS (membership number 61 702), and was promoted SS Generalmajor, Brigadeführer 
on 30-01-1939 and achieved his assignment to the Staff SS Upper Sector “Elbe”/ Stab SS-Oberabschnitt “Elbe” on 09-11-1944. From November 1926 until March 1928 he applied himself to law studies again in Münster and Göttingen. In December 1928 he became an intern with the Altona legal authorities. On 14-09-1930 he was elected Member of the Reichstag for the Hamburg constituency. 
In 1931, Dr. Nieland the much older opera singer (most recently in the Stadttheater and Opera House in Hamburg) and soprano Frieda Antonia Singler (born 1886), who tragically died on 08-06-1931 in Hamburg, seriously ill.In 1932 he married Berta Elly, born Reimer (1894–1970), who brought two children into the marriage: Joachim (1922–1942) and Margrit (born 1927). With Berta he had son Claus (born 1934) and daughter Ursula (born 1935).Most recently, presumably as a widower, he married Erna Grete Renate Susanne, born Hornung (she was born in 1920).
On 01-05-1931 Hans Nieland was appointed Leader of the NSDAP Foreign Organization/ NSDAP Auslands-Organisation, abbreviated: NSDAP/AO), 
which was founded in Hamburg, by NSDAP Reichsorganisationsleiter Gregor Strasser 
. Strasser’s personal and political conflicts with Adolf Hitler led to his death on 30-06-1934 during the Night of the Long Knives .
He visited the Netherlands and England from 1931-1932. He stayed in London from 15–19 January 1932, where he spoke to an audience of approximately 200 people. Upon returning, Nieland already resigned from Strasser’s party office on 08-05-1933 because he had acceded to more important duties in the meantime. From 05-03-to 14-10-1933 he was head of the Hamburg police and from 18-05-1933 he was a member of the Hamburg provincial government. Nieland assumed the Hamburg revenue office in May 1933. Additionally, he directed parts of the Administration for Economics, Technology and Labour since November 1934. After the Groß-Hamburg Gesetz came into force in April 1937 Nieland was awarded the title Senator and the position of a city treasurer for life. In February 1940 he was appointed Lord Mayor of regional capital Dresden at the suggestion of Reichsstatthalter/ Imperial Governor Martin Mutschmann 
by Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm “Willi” Frick.
After the heavy air raids of 13 and 14-02-1945, which destroyed the baroque historic section totally, Nieland left precipitously Dresden on 23-02-1945, disappeared completely for 8 days and turned up in Berlin on 03-03-1945.
Martin Mutschmann after the war was handed over to the NKVD, 
The NKVD, which translates to the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs, was the primary apparatus of fear to carry out Stalin’s bidding during his almost thirty-year reign. A secret police organisation that was not worried about whom they incarcerated, the NKVD was pivotal in carefully maintaining Josef “Koba” Vissarionovich Stalin‘s 
cult of personality. Active during the Civil War 
, which ended in 1922, the Cheka was the NKVD’s early predecessor. It was vital in filling prisons with political opponents. Once the Bolsheviks established their power, many prisoners were set free, and another organisation called the OGPU 
was established. The death of Vladimir Lenin 
two years later and the ascension of new leader Joseph Stalin brought back the necessity of secret policing, this time one with a beady eye on the men within the Bolshevik party. The Joint State Political Directorate (JSPD) (OGPU; was the intelligence and state security service and secret police of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1934.
Martin Mutschmann was imprisoned in the Lubyanka prison in Moscow, 
tried by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union and sentenced to death on 30-01-1947. He was shot on 14-02-1947, age 67..
From 02-06-1945 until Augustus 1948 Nieland was detained in several British internment facilities, for example in Neumünster-Gadeland and in Civil Internment Camp No 5 Staumühle (near Paderborn). 
In August 1948 a fine was imposed on Nieland in the course of a “Spruchkammerverfahren”/“proceedings before denazification tribunals”) in Bielefeld, which was regarded as compensated by the term of imprisonment, however. In 1949 he was classified as minderbelastet/marginally incriminated and in 1950 as Mitläufer/ follower or nominal member. After being released he worked for a time as a consulting economist and later was a successful banker in Hamburg.
Death and burial ground of Nieland, Hans Heinrich.
Living in Hamburg Hans Heinrich Nieland died 29-08-1976, age 75, in Reinbek near Hamburg and he is buried on the Ohlsdorf Cemetery in Hamburg, Section AD 5.
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