English source-aligned edition
Wilhelm Beiglböck
Wilhelm Beiglböck served as physician in charge of seawater experiments on prisoners at Dachau. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Dachau 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
- Wilhelm Beiglböck was born in Hochneukirchen on 10 October 1905 and died in Buxtehude on 22 November 1963. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1944 he was the physician in charge of seawater-drinking experiments on 40 Roma and Sinti prisoners at Dachau. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The Doctors’ Trial sentenced him in 1947 to 15 years in prison; the term was reduced to 10 years, he was released in 1951, and a new investigation opened in 1959–1960 was discontinued. (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 his direct direction of the documented experiments and the responsibility established by the judgment, without assigning unproved deaths to him. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- From July to September 1944 he conducted seawater experiments on 40 prisoners at Dachau. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1947 he received a 15-year prison term, later reduced to 10 years; he left prison in 1951. (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
The 15-year term was reduced to 10 years; after early release in 1951 he resumed medical work, and the new investigation of 1959–1960 was discontinued. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No separate victim total or causal link to particular deaths is asserted beyond the cited findings. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.