28 Facts About Gerhard Rose

Gerhard Rose attended high schools in Stettin, Dusseldorf, Bremen and Breslau.

Gerhard Rose's training was interrupted from 1914 to 1918 by the First World War.

Gerhard Rose moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Berlin and to the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelm University of Breslau to continue his studies.

Gerhard Rose completed the state medical examination on 15 November 1921, receiving the mark "very good".

Gerhard Rose was formally approved to practice medicine on 16 May 1922.

Between 1922 and 1926, Gerhard Rose worked as a medical assistant at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, at the Hygienic Institute in Basel and at the Anatomical Institute of the University of Freiburg.

Gerhard Rose was a medical adviser to the Kuomintang government.

Gerhard Rose was the health adviser at the Ministry of the interior in Chekiang.

Gerhard Rose was unable to pursue his studies during his time in China.

Gerhard Rose returned to Berlin in September 1936, prior to the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Gerhard Rose took over as head of the Department of Tropical Medicine at the Berlin Robert Koch Institute on 1 October 1936.

On 1 February 1943, Gerhard Rose was named vice president of the Robert Koch Institute.

In 1939, Gerhard Rose entered the medical branch of the Luftwaffe.

Schilling had performed malaria experiments; Gerhard Rose continued his experiments, mostly with psychiatric patients.

Gerhard Rose carried out his malaria experiments on the mentally ill at Dachau concentration camp, Buchenwald concentration camp, and with Russian prisoners in a psychiatric clinic in Thuringia.

Between 1941 and 1942, Gerhard Rose tested new antimalarial drugs for IG Farben in Arnsdorf.

From January 1942 onward, Gerhard Rose conducted human experiments in Dachau concentration camp to develop a vaccine against malaria.

Gerhard Rose, who was present at the conference and had been informed of the nature of the human experiments, voiced his objections about the nature of the human trials.

Gerhard Rose asked to perform further tests of a new typhus vaccine at Buchenwald.

Gerhard Rose said that "30 suitable gypsies" should be transferred to Buchenwald.

On 4 October 1943, Haagen wrote to Gerhard Rose to complain that he lacked the appropriate prisoners to carry out infection experiments on vaccinated persons.

In early 1944, the Institute of Hygiene of the Luftwaffe, led by Gerhard Rose, settled into the Pfafferode sanatorium near Muhlhausen.

Gerhard Rose was just one of seven accused Luftwaffe doctors in Doctors' Trial.

Central to the case against Gerhard Rose were the typhus experiments in Buchenwald and Natzweiler.

Gerhard Rose drew from his international experience to make these comparisons.

On 3 June 1955, Gerhard Rose was the last of the prisoners in the doctors' trial to be dismissed from Landsberg Prison.

Gerhard Rose's detention was accompanied by various efforts for his early release by his wife and Ernst Georg Nauck, director of the Hamburger Bernhard Nocht Institute.

Gerhard Rose denied his guilt, insisting that his medical experiments served a humanitarian purpose.