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Hans-Wolfgang Romberg
Born
Hans-Wolfgang Romberg

15 May 1911
Died6 September 1981(1981-09-06) (aged 70)
OccupationDoctor of aviation medicine
MotiveNazism
Criminal chargeAcquitted

Hans-Wolfgang Romberg was a doctor of German aviation medicine who participated in the Nuremberg Medical Trials at Dachau and Nazi human experiments .[1]. He was indicted in the Nuremberg medical trial, but acquitted on August 20, 1947. [2][3]

Early life

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Romberg studied medicine at both the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Innsbruck from 1929, and graduated in 1935. He then worked as an assistant doctor in Friedrichshain hospital between April 1936 to 1938.[4][5]

Career

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Nazi Germany

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In 1938, he first became an assistant and later head of department at the Institut für Flugmedizin der Deutschen Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt in Berlin-Adlershof under Siegfried Ruff.

In 1940, he received his doctorate in Berlin.[6]

In 1942, together with Sigmund Rascher and Ruff, he carried out high-altitude experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp — some of which ended fatally.

Post-war career

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Romberg was acquitted in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial in 1947.

He later ran a medical practice in Düsseldorf.[citation needed]

Investigations by the public prosecutor at the Munich II Regional Court against Romberg, and Siegfried Ruff were dropped in 1959.[7]

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Hans-Wolfgang Romberg at the Doctors' Trial, 9 December 1946 to 20 August 1947.

Death

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On 6 September 1981, Romberg died at the age of 70.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Ausstellung Dachau als pdf" (PDF).
  2. ^ "Nuremberg - Document Viewer - Affidavits concerning the high altitude experiments at Dachau".
  3. ^ "Nuremberg - Document Viewer - Affidavit concerning the high altitude experiments at Dachau".
  4. ^ "Nuremberg Trials Project -- Medical Trial Transcript". Archived from the original on 15 July 2010.
  5. ^ "Nuremberg - Document Viewer - Affidavit concerning the high altitude experiments at Dachau".
  6. ^ Glogner, P. (March 1964). "Das pathologisch-anatomische Bild der Leukämien 1940 bis 1961*". DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. 89 (12). Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag: 568–573. doi:10.1055/s-0028-1111056. ISSN 0012-0472. PMID 14117111.
  7. ^ http://www.hdbg.de/dachau/pdfs/13/13_02/13_02_01.PDF
  8. ^ "Hans Wolfgang Romberg".
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