1. August Hirt was an SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer and by 1944, an SS-Sturmbannfuhrer.
12 Facts About August Hirt
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August Hirt received the Iron Cross, 2nd Class and the Wound Badge and returned to Mannheim in 1917 where he received his Abitur.
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In 1922, Hirt obtained his doctorate in medicine with "Der Grenzstrang des Sympathicus bei einigen Sauriern".
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August Hirt then worked at the Anatomical Institute in Heidelberg and in 1925 he was authorized to teach thanks to a thesis on nerve cells.
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In September 1932, August Hirt joined the Militant League for German Culture.
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August Hirt attained the rank of Sturmbannfuhrer in 1944.
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From 1 April 1936 August Hirt was associate director of the Institute of anatomy at University of Greifswald.
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August Hirt was appointed director since 1941 of the Institute of Anatomy in Strasbourg.
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August Hirt fled Strasbourg in September 1944, hiding in Tubingen in southern Germany across the river from Alsace.
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August Hirt committed suicide on 2 June 1945, aged 47, at Schluchsee, Baden-Wurttemberg, in the Black Forest.
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August Hirt's suicide was not known when he was tried in absentia at the Military War Crimes Trial at Metz on 23 December 1953 for his war crimes.
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August Hirt's death was finally confirmed in the mid-1960s when the Israeli secret service had his body exhumed, and an Israeli pathologist conclusively identified the bones.