Gebhardt, Karl, 1897-1948

LC control no.	no2002102137
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Personal name heading	Gebhardt, Karl, 1897-1948 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Gebhardt, Karl (Franz), 1897-1948 Gebhardt, Carl Franz, 1897-1948 Gebhardt, Carl, 1897-1948
Associated place	Berlin (German Empire) Prague (Czechoslovakia)
Place of birth	Haag in Oberbayern, Bavaria (German Empire)
Place of death	Landsberg Prison, Landsberg am Lech (Allied-occupied Germany)
Affiliation	Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei
Profession or occupation	Physicians College teachers Armed Forces -- Officers
Found in	OCLC, 6 Nov. 2002 (Heeresdisziplinargesetz [Armed Forces Disciplinary Law]: Gebhardt, Karl, 1897) Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47 (2001), page 91 : (Gebhardt, Karl; The Hague, The Netherlands). SS: Roll of Infamy, by Christopher Ailsby (1997), page 53 (Gebhardt; professor doctor Karl Franz). Karl Gebhardt, from Wikipedia -viewed Nov. 20, 2019 : (Karl Gebhardt was a Nazi Physician and a criminal of war, sentenced in the Doctors' Trial (August 20, 1947) and executed by hanging. Started his career in 1933 when he joined the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), more commonly known as Nazi Party. Joined the Hohenlychen Sanatorium in the Uckermark Concentration Camp, which he converted to an orthopedic clinic (the first sports medicine clinic in Germany). Appointed as a professor at the Deutsche Hochschule für Leibesübungen (German College for Physical Education). Began to commit crimes against humanity in early 1944, after being promoted to the ranks of Gruppenführer (an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party of the Allgemeine SS -a major branch of the Schutzstaffel SS), and of Generalleutnant (the highest rank of the German Army and German Air Force) in the Waffen-SS. Was the main coordinator of a series of surgical experiments performed on inmates of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp and Auschwitz, in order to vindicate his gross surgical approach to contaminated traumatic wounds, as well as to prove the useless of the then-new antibiotic drugs (such as sulfonamide) in the treatment of gangrene. Such experiments also included limb transplants from prisoners to German soldiers). More detailed information at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Gebhardt> "Karl Gebhardt (1897-1948): A lost man" by JR. Silver; JR Coll Physicians Edinburgh 2011; 41:366-71; ©2011 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; viewed Nov. 20, 2019 : (Karl Gebhardt had a distiguished career as professor of sports medicine before the Second World War. Founded the first specialised orthopaedic clinic in Germany at Hohenlychen, and was the President of the Red Cross in Germany. Acted as Heinrich Himmler's personal physician and was responsible for medical experimentation on prisoners in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Ravensbrück) <https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1789/398c4bea4670ebe6063dc731d13f1c363637.pdf>