(1909-09-04)4 September 1909 Geroldshausen, German Empire
Died
20 September 1945(1945-09-20) (aged 36) Staumühle, Allied-occupied Germany
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Years of service
1933–1945
Rank
SS-Obersturmbannführer
Commands held
Formal responsibility of medical staff at Auschwitz; human medical experimentation performed on prisoners at Auschwitz
Awards
War Merit Cross 1st Class With Swords
German Social Welfare Decoration 2nd Class
Spouse(s)
Gertrud Petavy
Children
4
Eduard Wirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had formal responsibility for everything undertaken by the nearly twenty SS doctors (including Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann and Carl Clauberg) who worked in the medical sections of Auschwitz between 1942 and 1945.
EduardWirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942...
permanent injuries. At Auschwitz and other camps, under the direction of EduardWirths, selected inmates were subjected to various experiments that were designed...
Wirths is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carl Wirths (1897–1955), German politician EduardWirths (1909–1945), Nazi German...
was developed by the German physician Hans Hinselmann, with help from EduardWirths. The development of colposcopy involved experimentation on Jewish inmates...
was posted to Auschwitz, where he was appointed by SS-Standortarzt EduardWirths, chief medical officer at Auschwitz, to the position of chief physician...
were deliberately infected during Claus Schilling 's malaria experiments. Wirths was involved in ordering medical experimentation, particularly in gynecological...
of pain. At Auschwitz and other German camps, under the direction of EduardWirths, selected inmates were subjected to various hazardous experiments that...
Mengele, served as a medical officer at Auschwitz under the command of EduardWirths of the camp's medical corps. Mengele undertook selections even when...
the inmates raised suspicions of the SS guards, but her supervisor EduardWirths took a liking to her and overlooked any suspicious activity. She was...
fugitive in the 1970s and 1980s. Died of natural causes in Chile in 1984. EduardWirths September 4, 1909 September 20, 1945 36 years, 16 days Human medical...
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asked his superior EduardWirths to replace him as camp doctor so that he would not have to take part in selections. Although Wirths was briefly entrusted...
Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (b. 1884) 1945 – EduardWirths, German physician (b. 1909) 1947 – Fiorello H. La Guardia, American...
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (d. 1960) 1909 – EduardWirths, German physician (d. 1945) 1910 – Denis Tomlinson, Zimbabwean-South...
physician and SS captain, and Auschwitz physicians Friedrich Entress and EduardWirths. Most of the experiments were conducted in Birkenau in Block 20, the...
Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, German physician (born 1858) 20 September — EduardWirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp (suicide)...
The Holocaust Nazi human experimentation Josef Mengele Carl Clauberg EduardWirths Robert Jay Lifton, (1986) The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the...
Brazilian soldier, statesman and Interim President of Brazil (b. 1869) EduardWirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp (suicide)...
physician and SS captain, and by Auschwitz physicians Friedrich Entress and EduardWirths. The most infamous doctor at Auschwitz was Josef Mengele, the "Angel...
medical experimentation at Auschwitz, along with Helmut Vetter and EduardWirths, where he operated in "Block 21" and was paid by the Bayer pharmaceutical...
SS-organization Ahnenerbe, but was later pushed out by Heinrich Himmler. EduardWirths – Chief camp physician at Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to...
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