Karl Franz Gebhardt (* 23 November 1897 in Hague (Upper Bavaria); "† 2 June 1948 in Landsberg at the Lech, executed) was a German surgeon and the body physician Heinrich Himmlers.

Its medicine study began it 1919 in Munich and it received its license to practise medicine 1924. It habilitierte itself 1935 and became two years late professor for orthopedic surgery in Berlin. He transferred the line of the Tuberkulose sanatorium as an upper physician to Hohenlychen, which he transformed first to the hospital and then during the Second World War to a hospital of the weapon SS. Gehardt was temporary during the Second World War president of the German red cross (German Red Cross).

Karl Gebhardt was a youth friend Heinrich Himmlers and became a member of the "“free corps upper country"”, to which also Himmler and Sepp Dietrich belonged. At the Hitler Putsch from 9 November 1923 it was likewise involved, became however only at the 1. May 1933 member of the NSDAP and two years late SS-man.

Gebhardt accomplished experiments at KZ-prisoners in different concentration camps, particularly in the KZ which lay in close proximity to Hohenlychen, and in Auschwitz. Karl Gebhardt served Heinrich Himmler as a body physician and became therefore one of the most important physicians within the SS. It accompanied the SS on its escape and became to 21. or 22. May 1945 in calm. On 9 December 1946 the process before a US military court in Frankfurt/Main began because of deadly sulfone amide experiments at female KZ-passengers and criminal chirugischen interferences. Gebhardt was condemned as a war criminal and because of crimes against the humanity on 20 August 1947 to death.

Transports:

• and major general of the weapon SS on 1 October 1940,
• SS-group leader on 30 January 1943.

Sources:

• Witte Peter, Wildt Michael, Pohl Dieter and others, the service calendar Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42, Hans Christians publishing house, Hamburg, 1999

Related links

• http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/himmlergebhardt_de.html/ Biografie Gerbhardts
• Shepherd, S: To the self understanding of women in the concentration camp. The camp , P. 131; Thesis 2002; DO Berlin. (Pdf file, 741 KB).
• *biografische sketch

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