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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sigmund Rascher has received more than 497,617 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sigmund Rascher is the 295th most popular physician, the 2,216th most popular biography from Germany and the 42nd most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Sigmund Rascher ranks 295 out of 726. Before him are Ennio Antonelli, Franciscus Donders, Caesarius of Nazianzus, Johann Conrad Dippel, Pierre Paul Émile Roux, and Gerard van Swieten. After him are Leopold Auenbrugger, Ali ibn Sahl Rabban al-Tabari, Kálmán Kalocsay, Michel-Gabriel Paccard, Horace Wells, and Jan Jesenius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Sigmund Rascher ranks 99. Before him are Bernd Rosemeyer, Atsushi Nakajima, Adib Shishakli, Guy de Rothschild, Attilio Demaría, and Ryszard Siwiec. After him are Kinuyo Tanaka, Héctor José Cámpora, Juan Bosch, Marie-Thérèse Walter, C. N. Annadurai, and Nelson Algren. Among people deceased in 1945, Sigmund Rascher ranks 155. Before him are Joseph Darnand, Mile Budak, Alfréd Schaffer, Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Jambyl Jabayev, and Vilém Mathesius. After him are John Basilone, Alla Nazimova, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., Prince Kan'in Kotohito, and Nikolai Berzarin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sigmund Rascher ranks 2,216 out of 7,253. Before him are Claude Dornier (1884), Heinz Hoffmann (1910), Walter Ruttmann (1887), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Brandenburg (1383), Friedrich Wieck (1785), and Jérôme Boateng (1988). After him are John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627), Fritz Pfeffer (1889), Louis VI, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1630), Princess Mathilde Caroline of Bavaria (1813), William, Duke of Brunswick (1806), and Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Sigmund Rascher ranks 42. Before him are Hans Berger (1873), Ernst-Robert Grawitz (1899), Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1735), Ernst Gräfenberg (1881), Horst Schumann (1906), and Johann Conrad Dippel (1673). After him are Adolf Kussmaul (1822), Eduard Wirths (1909), Ernst Gottlieb von Steudel (1783), Hinrich Lichtenstein (1780), Johann Christian Reil (1759), and Friedrich Hoffmann (1660).

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