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Herta Oberheuser

1911 - 1978

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Herta Oberheuser (15 May 1911 – 24 January 1978) was a German Nazi physician and convicted war criminal who performed medical atrocities on prisoners at the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. For her role in the Holocaust, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Doctors' Trial, but served only five years of her sentence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herta Oberheuser has received more than 653,942 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Herta Oberheuser is the 133rd most popular physician (down from 117th in 2019), the 834th most popular biography from Germany (down from 771st in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Physician.

Herta Oberheuser was a Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments on prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp. She is most famous for being the only female defendant at the Nuremberg Trials, and for her involvement in the selection of subjects for medical experiments.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Herta Oberheuser ranks 133 out of 726. Before her are Eduard Bloch, Nicolaes Tulp, John Snow, Edgar Adrian, Oswald Avery, and George Emil Palade. After her are Peter Damian, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Sushruta, Ibn Zuhr, Carl Wernicke, and Albrecht von Haller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Herta Oberheuser ranks 42. Before her are Ginger Rogers, Max Frisch, Odysseas Elytis, Trygve Haavelmo, Ernesto Sabato, and John Archibald Wheeler. After her are Louise Bourgeois, Richard Baer, L. Ron Hubbard, Bruno Kreisky, Sergey Sokolov, and Gustav Wagner. Among people deceased in 1978, Herta Oberheuser ranks 31. Before her are Hasso von Manteuffel, Jim Jones, Harold Lasswell, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Nazli Sabri, and József Bozsik. After her are Ed Wood, Claude François, Tamara Karsavina, Jomo Kenyatta, Étienne Gilson, and Norman Rockwell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Herta Oberheuser ranks 834 out of 7,253. Before her are Levin August von Bennigsen (1745), Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666), Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1671), Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Otto Ernst Remer (1912), and Bruno of Querfurt (970). After her are Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (1505), Georg Ernst Stahl (1659), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Friedrich Mohs (1773), Felix Magath (1953), and Johann Deisenhofer (1943).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Herta Oberheuser ranks 17. Before her are Theodor Morell (1886), Werner Forssmann (1904), Ryke Geerd Hamer (1935), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840), and Johannes Peter Müller (1801). After her are Theodor Billroth (1829), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Albert of Riga (1165), Carl Ludwig (1816), Engelbert Kaempfer (1651), and August von Wassermann (1866).

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