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Eduard Wirths

1909 - 1945

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Eduard Wirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had formal responsibility for everything undertaken by the nearly twenty SS doctors (including Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann and Carl Clauberg) who worked in the medical sections of Auschwitz between 1942 and 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eduard Wirths is the 276th most popular physician (up from 308th in 2019), the 1,972nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,350th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Eduard Wirths ranks 276 out of 726. Before him are Henry Gray, Hieronymus Fabricius, Thomas Addison, John Harvey Kellogg, Johann Conrad Dippel, and 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas al-Majusi. After him are August Oetker, Hans Berger, Regnier de Graaf, Thomas Hodgkin, Hiraga Gennai, and Guillaume Dupuytren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Eduard Wirths ranks 85. Before him are André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Lennart Bernadotte, Golo Mann, Adalbert Deșu, Joseph Losey, and Juan Carlos Onetti. After him are Olga Rubtsova, Prince Hubertus of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Porfirio Rubirosa, Adolfo López Mateos, Matti Järvinen, and Albert R. Broccoli. Among people deceased in 1945, Eduard Wirths ranks 135. Before him are Paul Pelliot, Mário de Andrade, Bogdan Filov, Wolfgang Lüth, Julius Dorpmüller, and Dimitrije Ljotić. After him are Wilhelm Rediess, Gustav Flatow, Alexander Siloti, Otto Kittel, Korechika Anami, and Zinaida Gippius.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eduard Wirths ranks 1,972 out of 7,253. Before him are Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Joachim Streich (1951), Karin Dor (1938), Reinhard Marx (1953), Eduard Mörike (1804), and Duchess Amalie in Bavaria (1865). After him are Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen (1310), Fritz Hofmann (1871), Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (1903), Wilhelm Rediess (1900), Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria (1235), and Andreas Cellarius (1596).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Eduard Wirths ranks 42. Before him are Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), Karl Adolph von Basedow (1799), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Friedrich Kasimir Medikus (1736), and Johann Conrad Dippel (1673). After him are August Oetker (1862), Hans Berger (1873), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723), Sigmund Rascher (1909), and Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744).

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