Hans-Wolfgang Romberg

Romberg during the Nuremberg Trials

Hans-Wolfgang Romberg (* 15. May 1911 in Berlin , † 6. September 1981 in Weil am Rhein ) was a doctor of German aviation medicine . Because of his experiments on people at the time of National Socialism , he was indicted in the Nuremberg medical trial, but acquitted on August 20, 1947.

biography

Wolfgang Romberg studied medicine at the universities in Berlin and Innsbruck from 1929 and graduated in 1935. From April 1936 to 1938 he worked as an assistant doctor in a hospital in Berlin-Friedrichshain . Romberg took effect in May 1933, the Nazi Party and was a member of the Marine SA , whose members mainly of seamen of the Merchant Navy , Imperial Navy or the Navy passed. He was also a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare . In 1938 he became first assistant and later department head at the Institute for Aviation Medicine of the German Research Institute in Berlin-Adlershof under Siegfried Ruff . In 1940 he received his doctorate in Berlin. Together with Sigmund Rascher and Ruff, he carried out altitude tests on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp in 1942, some of which were fatal. Romberg was acquitted in 1947 in the Nuremberg doctors' trial. Later he ran a doctor's practice in Düsseldorf. Investigations by the public prosecutor's office at Munich II Regional Court against Romberg, Georg August Weltz and Siegfried Ruff were discontinued in 1959.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . 3rd edition. Fischer-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 506.
• Ernst Klee: Auschwitz, Nazi medicine and its victims . Fischer-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 2001, ISBN 3-596-14906-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Wolfgang Romberg in the catalog of the German National Library
• Documents on Romberg from the Nuremberg Doctors Trial at the Nuremberg Trials Project.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Statement by Hans-Wolfgang Romberg of December 10, 1946 ( Memento of the original of July 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Nuremberg trials Project  
2. ↑ Hans-Wolfgang Romberg: The anatomical picture of the blood distribution with acceleration effect. (Medical dissertation Berlin of June 20, 1940) Stürtz, Würzburg 1940 (from: Aviation Medicine , Volume 4, Issue 3, 1940).
3. ↑ (Dachau exhibition as pdf; 387 kB)