diff --git a/dal/env.sample b/dal/env.sample
deleted file mode 100644
index a27b883..0000000
--- a/dal/env.sample
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-# Create .env to be loaded automatically
-
-LDAPSERVER="ldap://ldap1.ungleich.ch ldap://ldap2.ungleich.ch"
-LDAPSEARCHUSER="user here"
-LDAPSEARCHUSERPASSWORD="password here"
-
-
-# Space separated list of search bases for users
-LDAPSEARCH="ou=users,dc=ungleich,dc=ch ou=customers,dc=ungleich,dc=ch"
-LDAPCREATE="ou=customers,dc=ungleich,dc=ch"
diff --git a/dal/urls.py b/dal/urls.py
index b5f4a3a..1dab47a 100644
--- a/dal/urls.py
+++ b/dal/urls.py
@@ -4,10 +4,21 @@ from django.conf.urls import url
 from django.contrib import admin
 
 # Import the classes for the views
-from .views import Register, ChangeData, ChangePassword, ResetPassword, DeleteAccount, Index, LogOut, ResetRequest
+from .views import (
+    Register,
+    ChangeData,
+    ChangePassword,
+    ResetPassword,
+    DeleteAccount,
+    Index,
+    LogOut,
+    ResetRequest,
+    UserCreateAPI
+)
 
 urlpatterns = [
     path('register/', Register.as_view(), name="register"),
+    path('create/', UserCreateAPI.as_view(), name="create"),
     path('changedata/', ChangeData.as_view(), name="change_data"),
     path('resetpassword/', ResetPassword.as_view(), name="reset_password"),
     path('changepassword/', ChangePassword.as_view(), name="change_password"),
diff --git a/dal/views.py b/dal/views.py
index 5d643d2..ed1eef4 100644
--- a/dal/views.py
+++ b/dal/views.py
@@ -2,12 +2,15 @@
 from django.shortcuts import render
 from django.views.generic import View, FormView
 from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, logout
+from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from django.http import HttpResponse
 from django.core.validators import validate_email, ValidationError
 from django.urls import reverse_lazy
 from django.contrib.auth.tokens import PasswordResetTokenGenerator
 from django.core.mail import EmailMessage
 from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_control
+from rest_framework.views import APIView
+from rest_framework.response import Response
 from .models import ResetToken
 from .forms import LoginForm
 from .ungleich_ldap import LdapManager
@@ -459,3 +462,54 @@ class PseudoUser():
     # random alphanumeric strings for primary key and password, just used for token generation
     pk = ''.join(choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for _ in range(20))
     password = ''.join(choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits) for _ in range(30))
+
+class UserCreateAPI(APIView):
+
+    def post(self, request):
+        username = request.POST.get('username')
+        email = request.POST.get('email')
+        firstname = request.POST.get('firstname')
+        lastname = request.POST.get('lastname')
+
+        if username == "" or not username:
+            return Response('Please supply a username.', 400)
+        try:
+            validate_email(email)
+        except ValidationError:
+            return Response('Email is not valid.', 400)
+        if not firstname or not lastname:
+            return Response('Please provide firstname and lastname', 400)
+
+        pwd = r'%s' % User.objects.make_random_password()
+
+        try:
+            ldap_manager = LdapManager()
+            ldap_manager.create_user(
+                username, pwd, firstname, lastname, email
+            )
+        except Exception as e:
+            return Response('While trying to create the user, an error was encountered: %s' % e, 400)
+
+        # send user credentials via email
+        creationtime = int(datetime.utcnow().timestamp())
+        # Construct the data for the email
+        email_from = settings.EMAIL_FROM_ADDRESS
+        to = ['%s <%s>' % (username, email)]
+        subject = 'Your datacenterlight credentials'
+        body = 'Your user was successfully created.\n'
+        body += 'Your credentials are:\n'
+        body += 'Username: %s\n\n' % username
+        body += 'Password: %s\n\n' % pwd
+        body += 'We strongly recommend you to after log in change your password.\n'
+        # Build the email
+        mail = EmailMessage(
+            subject=subject,
+            body=body,
+            from_email=email_from,
+            to=to
+        )
+        try:
+            mail.send()
+        except:
+            return Response('User was created, but failed to send the email', 201)
+        return Response('User successfully created', 200)