Albert Maria Forster (26 July 1902 – 28 February 1952) was a Nazi German politician and war criminal.
Under his administration as the Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia (the other German-annexed section of occupied Poland) during the Second World War, the local non-German population of Poles and Jews was classified as sub-human and subjected to extermination campaign involving ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and in case of some Poles with German ancestry, forceful Germanisation.
Forster was directly responsible for extermination of non-Germans and strong supporter of genocide of Poles which he advocated already before the war.
Forster was tried, convicted and hanged for his crimes in Warsaw after Germany was defeated.