Fritz Fischer (medical doctor)

Fritz Ernst Fischer ( born October 5, 1912 in Berlin- Tegel, † 2003 in Ingelheim) was a surgeon and Sturmbannführer the SS He was sentenced at the Nuremberg doctors trials for human experiments at Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Life

Prior to his career in the SS Fischer worked as an assistant to Berthold Ostertag at Berlin's Rudolf Virchow Hospital. He joined in February of 1934, the SS and on 1 May 1937, the NSDAP. Two years later he was transferred to the Waffen-SS and assigned to an SS hospital in Hohenlychen. There he was from November 1939 as a medical assistant by Karl Gebhardt, who later became top clinicians at the Reich Physician SS, Ernst- Robert Grawitz, works. In June of 1941, Fischer moved to the SS regiment Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, but returned in the same year returned to Hohenlychen. In the Ravensbrück concentration camp he undertook in collaboration with Percy Treite various sulfonamide experiments on the women imprisoned there. In May 1943, he left the camp and went to the front. After being wounded and the amputation of the right arm (18 August 1944) he was first appointed in December 1944 as a physician at the Charité in Berlin and returned in April 1945 again to Hohenlychen back.

Fischer received the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial on 20 August 1947, his sulfonamide experiments and tests for bone, muscle, nerve regeneration and bone transplantation at first a life sentence, his defense there was the later CSU politician Alfred Seidl. The military court sentence was commuted January 31, 1951 the U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy Jay in 15 years in prison. On April 1, 1954 Fischer was prematurely released from prison for war criminals in Landsberg.

He began a second career as a research associate at the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. His actions justified fishermen in an interrogation from 1946 as follows:

I have been during this time soldier, under a very high chief, who was very strong as a person. I have been advised in a clear command reception that the head of state, these attempts were ordered in an urgent question of practical medicine at the front.

Fritz Fischer was married and has three children, two sons and a daughter.