Wilhelm Pfannenstiel
| Wilhelm Pfannenstiel | |
|---|---|
SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm Pfannenstiel
in postwar custody |
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| Born |
12 February 1890 Breslau |
| Died | 1 November 1982 (aged 92) |
| Allegiance |
 Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Schutzstaffel
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| Years of service | until 1945 |
| Rank |
 SS-Standartenführer
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| Unit |
 Totenkopfverbände
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Wilhelm Hermann Pfannenstiel (12 February 1890 – 1 November 1982) was a German physician, member of the Nazi Party from 1933, (NSDAP 2828629), and SS officer from 1934, (SS-Standartenführer, SS-No. 273083). In August 1942 he witnessed, together with Kurt Gerstein, the gassing of Jews in Bełżec extermination camp. He may also share responsibility with other SS officials in criminal medical experimentations on unwilling and uninformed human beings, mainly Jews prisoners in Dachau concentration camp.
Wilhelm Pfannenstiel was born in Breslau, Lower Silesia, the current city of Wrocław in western Poland. He was the son of the gynecologist Hermann Johannes Pfannenstiel and Elisabeth Behlendorff, who married in 1889. Pfannenstiel joined the Nazi party in 1933 after Adolf Hitler succeeded in being appointed Chancellor of the Reich.
On November 11, 1933, Pfannenstiel signed the commitment of the professors at German universities and colleges to Hitler and the National Socialist state. Also in 1933, he founded a chapter of the "German Society for Racial Hygiene" in Marburg. In 1934, he joined the SS. Pfannenstiel had five children. One of them was the late professor of medicine and thyroid expert Peter Pfannenstiel .
Pfannenstiel was a member of the NS Teacher's Association, the NS Medical Association and the NS Culture Bund. He worked in the Racial policy Office and Deputy Head of training for the Race and Resettlement main Office of the SS. As a Professor of Hygiene at the University of Marburg in Marburg, he headed the Marburg Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene (German Society for Race Hygiene). In 1935 he nominated Paul Uhlenhuth for the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work in chemotherapy. In 1937, he became lecturer in aviation medicine and SS-doctor of the upper section of Fulda-Werra. In 1939, he became Advisory hygienist at the SS Fü.
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