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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kurt Blome has received more than 447,797 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kurt Blome is the 509th most popular physician (down from 424th in 2019), the 4,089th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,304th in 2019) and the 86th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Kurt Blome ranks 509 out of 726Before him are Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Léon Jean Marie Dufour, Frank H. Netter, Ugo Cerletti, Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch, and Vivien Thomas. After him are Eugene Lazowski, Oskar Minkowski, Robert Knox, Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar, Anthony Carlisle, and Gazi Yaşargil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Kurt Blome ranks 171Before him are Edgar Jung, Oskar Maria Graf, Wilhelm Hasse, Norma Talmadge, Alexander P. de Seversky, and Lisa Tetzner. After him are Yakov Frenkel, Henryk Sławik, Edwin Linkomies, Jack Benny, Surya Sen, and Esfir Shub. Among people deceased in 1969, Kurt Blome ranks 149Before him are Giovanni Martinelli, Giuseppe Pinelli, Henri Decoin, Leonardo Cilaurren, Rafael Osuna, and Conrad Albrecht. After him are Charles Dvorak, Zia ol Din Tabatabaee, Ahmet Ali Çelikten, Kazimierz Sosnkowski, Ernst Deutsch, and Enrique Peñaranda.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Blome ranks 4,089 out of 7,253Before him are Julius Klengel (1859), Hermann, Prince of Wied (1814), Johann Andreas Wagner (1797), Johann Georg von Hahn (1811), Lisa Tetzner (1894), and Uschi Glas (1944). After him are Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg (1776), Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680), Ken Adam (1921), Ludwig Diels (1874), Maximilian Harden (1861), and Peter Joseph Lenné (1789).

Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Kurt Blome ranks 86Before him are Friedrich von Esmarch (1823), Gustav Hartlaub (1814), Wilhelm Kühne (1837), Ruth Pfau (1929), Karin Büttner-Janz (1952), and Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (1714). After him are Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786), Frederic Lewy (1885), Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch (1771), Özlem Türeci (1967), Albrecht von Graefe (1828), and Franz Josef Ruprecht (1814).