August Leopold Ernst Holzlöhner (1899 - 1945)

Born 23 Feb 1899 in Kummetschen, Insterburg, East Prussia, Prussia, Germany

Biography

Ernst Holzlöhner is Notable.

August Leopold Ernst Holzlöhner is born February 23, 1899 in Kummetschen, Insterburg, East Prussia, Prussia, Germany. He is a son of Carl Leopold Albert Holzlöhner and Martha.

Ernst Holzlöhner is a German physiologist, university lecturer and national socialist.

In 1933 he joins the NSDAP (Nazi party) and becomes lecturer at the University of Berlin. Later, Holzlöhner becomes SS-Sturmbannführer. In 1934, Holzlöhner receives a full professorship for physiology at the University of Kiel. During this time, he becomes a lecturer at the University of Kiel and deputy leader of the Schleswig-Holstein lecturers' association. Together with his assistants Sigmund Rascher and Erich Finke, he carries out sub-cooling experiments on behalf of the Luftwaffe in the Dachau concentration camp from August 1942, in which prisoners are deliberately chilled to simulate winter conditions, then reheated using different methods. At the conference on medical questions in distress and winter death on October 26 and 27, 1942, he discusses the results of the cold tests. In April 1945, Holzlöhner is appointed Rector of the University of Kiel.

Holzwöhner is captured and interrogated by British soldiers after the end of the war. After the interrogation, he commits suicide in June 1945.

Sources

Ancestry.com. Eastern Prussian Provinces, Germany [Poland], Selected Civil Vitals, 1874-1945 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016.

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