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Waldemar Hoven
Waldemar Hoven served as SS camp physician at Buchenwald and deputy in the typhus research unit.. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Buchenwald, Germany through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Born in Freiburg im Breisgau on 10 February 1903, Hoven served as an SS physician at Buchenwald. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The tribunal found that he helped select prisoners for typhus experiments and personally killed prisoners by injection. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He was convicted on Counts II, III and IV on 19 August 1947, sentenced to death by hanging, and executed at Landsberg on 2 June 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes only conduct established by the judgment and does not transfer every medical crime at Buchenwald to Hoven. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1942 he became an SS camp physician at Buchenwald and worked with the experimental station. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1947 the Doctors' Trial attributed to him participation in experiments and individual killings. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
He was convicted on Counts II, III and IV on 19 August 1947, sentenced to death by hanging, and executed at Landsberg on 2 June 1948. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No safely licensed portrait has been identified for publication; the profile remains without an image pending a separate rights review. Victim totals are not estimated here. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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