Chief of Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS, Senior Hygienist at the Reich, SS-Physician, SS and Waffen-SS Colonel, and defendant in the Doctors' Trial. He was involved with the Nazi ideology from 1930, first being the group leader of a local National Socialist German Students' Association then a NSDAP party member (No. 210,049). In 1931, he joined the SS, where he achieved the rank of Oberführer in both the General SS and the Waffen SS. He coordinated human experimentation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, testing biological warfare agents, including poisoned bullets. He was tried and condemned to death in 1947, and hung in 1948.
Chief of Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS, Senior Hygienist at the Reich, SS-Physician, SS and Waffen-SS Colonel, and defendant in the Doctors' Trial. He was involved with the Nazi ideology from 1930, first being the group leader of a local National Socialist German Students' Association then a NSDAP party member (No. 210,049). In 1931, he joined the SS, where he achieved the rank of Oberführer in both the General SS and the Waffen SS. He coordinated human experimentation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, testing biological warfare agents, including poisoned bullets. He was tried and condemned to death in 1947, and hung in 1948.
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