Hans Kippenberger (15 January 1898 – 3 October 1937) was a German politician of the KPD. Between 1928 and 1933 he sat as a member of the National Parliament (Reichstag).

Like many other party members at the time, he also operated under "party names" by which he may be identified in sources. They included "A. Neuberg", "Leo Wolf" and "Ernst Wolf".

Hans Kippenberger was born in Leipzig. His father was a lay preacher. He attended school up to the middle level and then became an intern at a printing machine factory, also in Leipzig, shortly afterwards embarking on a traineeship for bank work.

In 1915, Kippenberger volunteered for military service and spent the rest of the First World War in the Imperial German Army. He served on the Western Front, was wounded several times and was decorated with the Iron Cross First Class. When Kippenberger was discharged in January 1919, he had reached the rank of Oberleutnant.

Early in 1919, he embarked on a commercial traineeship. which led to a clerical job in Leipzig. From June 1921, he was based in Hamburg, employed as a foreign languages correspondent for various firms and working with the English, French, Italian and Spanish languages.

Kippenberger had already in Leipzig joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany, and when that broke apart, he was part of the pro-Soviet faction that joined with the newly-formed Communist Party of Germany. By 1922, he was employed full-time by the party as part of what one source identifies as the party's "secret apparatus".

Meanwhile, he attended lectures at the University of Hamburg on socioeconomics although it is not clear that he was formally enrolled as a student at the university.

He became a leader in the Communist Party student group and played a leading role in the Hamburg Uprising, which erupted in October 1923. In the city's politically-left-wing Barmbek quarter, Kippenberger led a fighting group of workers and also managed to plant communist moles into Hamburg police and Reichswehr units.