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Karl Brandt

1904 - 1948

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Karl Brandt (8 January 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany. Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's escort doctor in August 1934. A member of Hitler's inner circle at the Berghof, he was selected by Philipp Bouhler, the head of Hitler's Chancellery, to administer the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Brandt was later appointed the Reich Commissioner of Health and Emergency Services (Bevollmächtigter für das Sanitäts- und Gesundheitswesen). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karl Brandt is the 86th most popular physician (down from 60th in 2019), the 640th most popular biography from France (down from 576th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Physician.

Karl Brandt was a German physician and Nazi SS officer. He is most famous for being the head of the Nazi euthanasia program, which was responsible for killing over 70,000 disabled people.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Karl Brandt ranks 86 out of 726. Before him are Eugen Bleuler, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Cyril of Jerusalem, Walter Rudolf Hess, and Hua Tuo. After him are Ragnar Granit, Herophilos, Jacques Rogge, Theodor Morell, Corneille Heymans, and Harvey Cushing.

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Among people born in 1904, Karl Brandt ranks 22. Before him are Pavel Cherenkov, Harry Martinson, Louis Néel, Graham Greene, Alexei Kosygin, and Kurt Georg Kiesinger. After him are Odilo Globočnik, René Lacoste, John Hicks, Joan Crawford, Ernst Mayr, and Hans Albert Einstein. Among people deceased in 1948, Karl Brandt ranks 20. Before him are Antonin Artaud, Andrei Zhdanov, Hugo Boss, Witold Pilecki, Tamam Shud case, and Nikolai Berdyaev. After him are Theodor Morell, Folke Bernadotte, Arthur Liebehenschel, Maria Mandl, Ruth Benedict, and Jan Masaryk.

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In France

Among people born in France, Karl Brandt ranks 640 out of 6,770. Before him are Christine of France (1606), Claude of France (1547), Stephen, Count of Blois (1045), Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (1725), Ansgar (801), and Joseph Proust (1754). After him are Margaret of Anjou (1430), Camille Flammarion (1842), Jacques MacDonald (1765), Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), Sophie Marceau (1966), and Aristide Maillol (1861).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Karl Brandt ranks 13. Before him are Philippe Pinel (1745), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825), René Laennec (1781), André Frédéric Cournand (1895), Hilary of Poitiers (315), and Ambroise Paré (1510). After him are Jean Nicot (1530), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Marie François Xavier Bichat (1771), Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774), Duchenne de Boulogne (1806), and Georges Gilles de la Tourette (1857).

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