Fritz Ernst Fischer (* 5 October 1912 in Berlin/Tegel) was a surgeon and storm spell leader of the SS. He was condemned in the physician processes because of people attempts in the KZ to life imprisonment.

Before his career with the SS was active Fischer as an assistant of Berthold Ostertag at the citizen of Berlin Rudolf Virchow hospital. It stepped in the February of the yearly 1934 the SS and at the 1. May 1937 the NSDAP. Two years later it was shifted to the weapon SS and assigned to a SS-military hospital in Hohenlychen. There it was active starting from November 1939 as Assistenzarzt of Dr. Karl Gebhardt, the later highest clinician with the realm physician SS. In the June of the yearly 1941 Fischer changed to the SS-regiment body banner Adolf Hitler, returned however already in the same year to Hohenlychen. In the KZ it undertook different sulfone amide experiments at the women arrested there together with Dr. Percy Treite. In May 1943 it left the KZ and went to the front. After a Verwundung and the Amputation of the right arm (18 August 1944) he was appointed in December 1944 first as a physician to the in Berlin and returned in April 1945 again to Hohenlychen.

Fischer received sulfone amide experiments as well as bone, muscle and nerve renewal and bone transplantation attempts in the physician process on 20 August 1947 for its first a lifelong detention. The judgement was converted 1951 into 15 years detention. Already on 1 April 1954 Fischer became to dismiss prematurely.

It began a second career as scientific coworkers with the chemical concern Boehringer Ingelheim. One of the last signs of life dated from the year 1998 as a Fischer in the Rhineland-Palatinian Ockenheim lived. Fischer in a hearing tried to justify its acts as follows from the year 1946:

"„I was during this time a soldier, under a very high boss, who was very strong as a personality. In a clear command receipt it was communicated to me that by the head of state these attempts were ordered in an urgent question of the practical medicine at the front. "“

Fritz Fischer was married and had three children, two sons and a daughter.

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• To the self understanding of women in the concentration camp. The camp Thesis of Silke shepherd, faculty I Geisteswissenschaften of the technical University of Berlin, contains short personal record of Dr. Fischer starting from P. 131 FF.

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