Erich Traub

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Erich Traub (born June 27, 1906 in Asperglen ; † May 18, 1985 in Rosenheim ) was a German veterinarian whose research was important for biological warfare.

Life

Erich Traub received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Institute in Princeton before the Second World War . In the 1930s he was a member of Camp Siegfried and the NSKK . From 1942 he was head of the laboratory in a Nazi secret laboratory on the island of Riems in the Baltic Sea .

In 1949, Traub and his family fled the eastern sector of Berlin to West Berlin and soon after received a position in the Paperclip Program and later an invitation to Fort Detrick , where the Army had its headquarters for biological warfare. He then worked on Plum Island , where he researched biological weapons until the 1950s, working with more than 40 deadly germs. His assistant on Plum Island was Anna Burger. Traub's other places of work in the US were the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda , Maryland , as well as the United States Department of Agriculture research laboratories, which were also in Maryland, and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington. Among other things, the activities on Plum Island are blamed for spreading Lyme disease .

Traub later worked in various countries and finally returned to Germany. In 1955 he became president of the Federal Research Center for Virus Diseases in Animals in Tübingen. Eugen Haagen , who was involved in medical experiments on prisoners in the Natzweiler concentration camp , got a job under Traub . From 1956, Traub was honorary professor at the University of Tübingen . He is buried in the Bad Cannstatter Uff churchyard .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Glen Yeadon, John Hawkins: The Nazi Hydra in America: Suppressed History of a Century . Progressive Press, Joshua Tree (California) 2008, ISBN 978-0-930852-43-6 , pp. 381 (English, limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ HP Albarelli: A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the Cias Secret Cold War Experiments . ReadHowYouWant.com, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4587-8570-1 , pp. 125 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 15, 2017]).
  3. ^ Andrew Nikiforuk: Pandemonium: How Globalization and Trade are Putting the World at Risk . University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Qld 2007, ISBN 978-0-7022-3618-1 , pp. 208 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 15, 2017]).
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 629
personal data
SURNAME Traub, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Asperglen
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1985
Place of death Rosenheim