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Kurt Blome

1894 - 1969

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Kurt Blome (31 January 1894 – 10 October 1969) was a high-ranking Nazi scientist before and during World War II. He was the Deputy Reich Health Leader (Reichsgesundheitsführer) and Plenipotentiary for Cancer Research in the Reich Research Council. In his autobiography Arzt im Kampf (A Physician's Struggle), he equated medical and military power in their battle for life and death. Blome was tried at the Doctors' Trial in 1947 on charges of practicing euthanasia and conducting experiments on humans. He only admitted that he had been ordered in 1943 to experiment with plague vaccines on concentration camp prisoners. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Blome is the 501st most popular physician (up from 509th in 2019), the 3,852nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,089th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kurt Blome ranks 501 out of 726. Before him are William Hunter, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, William Stewart Halsted, Soumya Swaminathan, Eugène Olivier, and Constantin von Economo. After him are Oskar Minkowski, Wu Lien-teh, Russell M. Nelson, Madeleine Pelletier, Ibn Butlan, and Fritz Klein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Kurt Blome ranks 156. Before him are Lisa Tetzner, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Giuseppe Tucci, Elvira Popescu, Mirza Davud Huseynov, and Johan Wilhelm Rangell. After him are Riad Al Solh, Berdi Kerbabayev, John Lennard-Jones, Viorica Ursuleac, Saken Seifullin, and Edwin Linkomies. Among people deceased in 1969, Kurt Blome ranks 132. Before him are Friedrich von Huene, Renato Cesarini, Tiburcio Carías Andino, Bobbie Rosenfeld, Enrique Peñaranda, and Simon Vratsian. After him are Juan Modesto, C. N. Annadurai, Ahmet Ali Çelikten, Gabriel Chevallier, Silvestre Igoa, and Jalal Al-e-Ahmad.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Blome ranks 3,854 out of 7,253. Before him are Anton Koberger (1440), Heinrich Martin Weber (1842), Holger Meins (1941), Bernd Lucke (1962), Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797), and Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient (1804). After him are Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg (1912), Julius Rietz (1812), Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736), Tatjana Patitz (1966), Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), and Richard Heidrich (1896).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Kurt Blome ranks 83. Before him are Friedrich von Esmarch (1823), Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1762), Friedrich von Huene (1875), Gustav Fischer (1848), and Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833). After him are Ruth Pfau (1929), Caspar Peucer (1525), Frederic Lewy (1885), Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814), Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714), and Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771).

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