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Herta Oberheuser

1911 - 1978

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Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Doctors' Trial, but served only five years of her sentence. A survivor of Ravensbrück called Oberheuser "a beast masquerading as a human". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Herta Oberheuser is the 160th most popular physician (down from 133rd in 2019), the 950th most popular biography from Germany (down from 834th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Physician.

Herta Oberheuser was a Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments on prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. She is most famous for being the only female defendant at the Nuremberg Trials, and for her involvement in the selection of subjects for medical experiments.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Herta Oberheuser ranks 160 out of 726. Before her are Albrecht von Haller, Howard Florey, Marie François Xavier Bichat, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Georgios Papanikolaou, and Jonas Salk. After her are Agnodice, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, Peter Agre, Virginia Apgar, Magnus Hirschfeld, and E. Donnall Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Herta Oberheuser ranks 53. Before her are L. Ron Hubbard, Ginger Rogers, Samuel Reshevsky, Akira Yoshizawa, Bernard Katz, and Ernesto Sabato. After her are J. L. Austin, Gustav Wagner, Bruno Kreisky, Cantinflas, Henri Troyat, and Vincent Price. Among people deceased in 1978, Herta Oberheuser ranks 36. Before her are Sisavang Vatthana, Charles Best, Harold Lasswell, Jim Jones, Tamara Karsavina, and James B. Conant. After her are Shozo Tsugitani, József Bozsik, Nazli Sabri, Ed Wood, Étienne Gilson, and Claude François.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Herta Oberheuser ranks 950 out of 7,253. Before her are Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635), Hrotsvitha (935), Johannes Trithemius (1462), Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336), Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557), and Helmut Rahn (1929). After her are Peter Weiss (1916), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), Frank Wedekind (1864), Carl Stamitz (1745), George, King of Saxony (1832), and Johann Elert Bode (1747).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Herta Oberheuser ranks 20. Before her are Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935), Theodor Billroth (1829), and Franz Joseph Gall (1758). After her are Albert of Riga (1165), August von Wassermann (1866), Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Ludwig Guttmann (1899), and Horst Schumann (1906).

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