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Waldemar Hoven

1903 - 1948

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Waldemar Hoven (10 February 1903 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many concentration camp prisoners, and as one of the organizers of the euthanasia program Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 2 June 1948. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Waldemar Hoven is the 214th most popular physician (down from 200th in 2019), the 1,456th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,383rd in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Physician.

Waldemar Hoven is most famous for his work with German Expressionism. He was a painter, graphic artist, and art critic.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Waldemar Hoven ranks 214 out of 726. Before him are Patch Adams, Louis Ignarro, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Thomas Willis, Frederick Griffith, and Guy de Chauliac. After him are Mehriban Aliyeva, Zhang Zhongjing, Bernardino Ramazzini, John Langdon Down, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, and Barry Marshall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Waldemar Hoven ranks 76. Before him are Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Louis Leakey, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Misao Tamai, Yevgeny Mravinsky, and Johannes Heesters. After him are Werner Best, Erskine Caldwell, Charles W. Morris, Evelyn Waugh, Sadegh Hedayat, and Prince Nicholas of Romania. Among people deceased in 1948, Waldemar Hoven ranks 50. Before him are Kōki Hirota, Hans Aumeier, Manuel Roxas, Dieter Wisliceny, Béla Miklós, and Rudolf Brandt. After him are Josef Bühler, Seishirō Itagaki, Rosika Schwimmer, Kenji Doihara, Wolfram Sievers, and Viktor Brack.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Waldemar Hoven ranks 1,456 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1848), Henry of Latvia (1187), Anna Maria of the Palatinate (1561), Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (1723), Georg Kaiser (1878), and Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858). After him are Günter Guillaume (1927), Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse (1896), Jupp Derwall (1927), Karl Löwith (1897), Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729), and Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach (1682).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Waldemar Hoven ranks 30. Before him are Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Ludwig Guttmann (1899), Horst Schumann (1906), Werner Haase (1900), Franciscus Sylvius (1614), and Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796). After him are Carl Ludwig (1816), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Ernst-Günther Schenck (1904), Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818), and Kurt Polycarp Joachim Sprengel (1766).

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