11 Facts About Hans-Joachim Lang

Hans-Joachim Lang was born on 6 August 1951 and is a German journalist, historian, and adjunct professor of cultural anthropology at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies University of Tubingen.

Dr Lang researched and authored the award-winning book Die Namen der Nummern, published in 2004, which identified all of the victims murdered in the gas chamber of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp for Nazi anatomist August Hirt as part of his plan to create a pseudo-scientific Jewish skeleton collection during World War II.

Hans-Joachim Lang received a doctorate in German studies and political science from the University of Tubingen, Baden-Wurttemberg in 1980, where he studied under the French sociologist Freddy Raphael.

Hans-Joachim Lang joined the faculty at his alma mater, University of Tubingen, as an adjunct professor of cultural anthropology at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies.

Hans-Joachim Lang conducted this research in his free time over 20 years, when he was working as a science journalist.

In 1998, Dr Hans-Joachim Lang found archives of the Reichsuniversitat located at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, including the hand-written copy of the numbers recorded by Hirt's assistant, Henri Henrypierre.

Together with archives at Auschwitz concentration camp and Yad Vashem, Hans-Joachim Lang was able to identify all 86 of the victims' names, and other identifying information including occupations and place of origin.

Hans-Joachim Lang published the identities and biographies of all 86 victims in the award-winning book Die Namen der Nummern in 2004.

Hans-Joachim Lang has written several books and articles on holocaust topics and Nazi war crimes.

Hans-Joachim Lang's book Die Frauen von Block 10: Medizinische Versuche in Auschwitz.

An article Hans-Joachim Lang wrote for Die Zeit tells about the last person executed for murder in 1948 by the West German government in the aftermath of World War II.