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Sigmund Rascher

1909 - 1945

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Sigmund Rascher (12 February 1909 – 26 April 1945) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor. He conducted deadly experiments on humans pertaining to high altitude, freezing and blood coagulation under the patronage of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, to whom his wife Karoline "Nini" Diehl had direct connections. When police investigations uncovered that the couple had defrauded the public with their supernatural fertility by 'hiring' and kidnapping babies, she and Rascher were arrested in April 1944. He was accused of financial irregularities, murder of his former lab assistant, and scientific fraud, and brought to Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps before being executed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sigmund Rascher is the 328th most popular physician (down from 295th in 2019), the 2,370th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,216th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Sigmund Rascher ranks 328 out of 726. Before him are Titus Brandsma, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Vincenz Priessnitz, Leon Pinsker, Gerard van Swieten, and Shinya Yamanaka. After him are Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, Thomas Sydenham, Bronisława Dłuska, Carlos Finlay, Aletta Jacobs, and Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Sigmund Rascher ranks 107. Before him are Hideo Sakai, André Abegglen, Karl Schäfer, Roberto Burle Marx, C. Northcote Parkinson, and Dorothy Round. After him are Héctor José Cámpora, Seichō Matsumoto, Wolfgang Reitherman, Pavle Đurišić, Juan José Nogués, and Patricia Hayes. Among people deceased in 1945, Sigmund Rascher ranks 154. Before him are Avgustyn Voloshyn, Karl Fritzsch, Leonardo Conti, Mile Budak, Fritz Freitag, and Eric Liddell. After him are Martin Luther, Alla Nazimova, Pavle Đurišić, Jacques Doriot, Frank Chapman, and Peter Högl.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sigmund Rascher ranks 2,371 out of 7,253. Before him are Magdalene of Bavaria (1587), Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889), Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria (1439), Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1700), Princess Helena Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1888), and Johann Andreas Stein (1728). After him are Friedrich Hossbach (1894), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Charlotte Bühler (1893), Wilhelm Boger (1906), Ruth Fuchs (1946), and William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1682).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Sigmund Rascher ranks 47. Before him are Johann Conrad Dippel (1673), Eduard Wirths (1909), August Oetker (1862), Hans Berger (1873), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), and Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723). After him are Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744), Dorothea Erxleben (1715), Richard Wilhelm (1873), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Karl Genzken (1885), and Johann von Staupitz (1465).

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