Siegfried Handloser facts for kids
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Siegfried Handloser
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Handloser c. August 1942
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| Chief of the German Armed Forces Medical Services | |
| In office 28 July 1942 – 13 August 1944 |
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Siegfried Adolf Handloser
25 March 1885 Konstanz, German Empire |
| Died | 3 July 1954 (aged 69) Munich, West Germany |
| Cause of death | Cancer |
| Parents | Konstantin Handloser (father) Anna Maria (mother) |
| Alma mater | Kaiser Wilhelm Medicinal Academy University of Giessen |
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| Allegiance |  German Empire Nazi Germany |
| Branch/service |  German Army |
| Rank | Generaloberstabsarzt |
| Battles/wars | World War I
World War II |
Siegfried Adolf Handloser (25 March 1885 – 3 July 1954) was a Nazi physician and convicted war criminal, convicted for overseeing medical atrocities at concentration camps.
He was convicted at the 1947 Doctors' Trial during the subsequent Nuremberg trials and sentenced to life imprisonment. His sentence was ultimately reduced to a 20-year term, though Handloser was released in 1954 and died of cancer the same year.
Nazi Party membership
Born in Konstanz, he had been a member of the German Army Medical Service since the First World War.
Handloser joined the committee of the German Society for Internal Medicine (DGIM) in 1937 as a de facto Nazi emissary. In 1938, Handloser was promoted to the position of Army Group physician of the Nazi Army Group Command 3. In October, 1939, he was named honorary professor.
From February 1941 during World War II, he held the position of Chief of the Medical Services of the Wehrmacht, the most important medical position in the Nazi Armed Forces and Waffen-SS. He was also Doctor Professor of Medicine and Generaloberstabsarzt (Four stars, NATO Rank OF-9) of the German Armed Forces Medical Services.
Conviction and death
He was convicted by the American Military Tribunal No. 1 (the Doctors' Trial) in August 1947, and sentenced to life imprisonment. This was later reduced to 20 years, but in 1954 he was released shortly before dying of cancer in Munich at the age of 69.
