Siegfried Handloser

Siegfried Adolf Handloser (25 March 1885 – 3 July 1954) was a Doctor, Prof. of Medicine, Generaloberstabsarzt (three stars, OF-8) of the German Armed Forces Medical Services, Chief of the German Armed Forces Medical Services. He was one of the accused in the Doctors' Trial in Nuremberg—after the main Nuremberg Trials.

Siegfried Handloser
Handloser c. August 1942
Chief of the German Armed Forces Medical Services
In office
28 July 1942  13 August 1944
Personal details
Born
Siegfried Adolf Handloser

(1885-03-25)25 March 1885
Konstanz, German Empire
Died3 July 1954(1954-07-03) (aged 69)
Munich, Germany
Cause of deathCancer
ParentsKonstantin Handloser (father)
Anna Maria (mother)
Alma materKaiser Wilhelm Medicinal Academy
University of Giessen
Military service
Allegiance German Empire
 Nazi Germany
Branch/service German Army
RankGeneraloberstabsarzt
Battles/warsWorld War I
World War II

Born in Konstanz he had been a member of the German Army Medical Service since the First World War. In 1938, Handloser was promoted to the position of Army Group physician of the Army Group Command 3. In October, 1939, he was named honorary professor.

He had held the position of Chief of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces during World War II. It was the most important medical position in the entire German Armed Forces and the Waffen-SS.

Yet despite his full knowledge, he had done nothing to stop medical experiments conducted on concentration camp prisoners; this was sufficient to implicate him in the several medical cases dealt with during the Doctors' Trial.

He was convicted by the American Military Tribunal No. I in August 1947, and sentenced to life imprisonment. This was later reduced to 20 years and, in 1954, he was released. Shortly afterwards, Handloser died of cancer in Munich at the age of 69.

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