Helmut Kallmeyer was a German chemist in the era of National Socialism.
14 Facts About Helmut Kallmeyer
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Helmut Kallmeyer served as a consultant in Adolf Hitler's Chancellery for gasification methods.
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Helmut Kallmeyer was involved in Action T4, Nazi Germany's program to murder people with disabilities.
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Helmut Kallmeyer passed his Abitur in 1929, and then studied chemistry at various universities.
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Helmut Kallmeyer was then drafted into the Kriegsmarine, the navy of Nazi Germany, and served until September 1941.
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Helmut Kallmeyer never was a member of the Nazi Party, nor was he an SS man, nor a policeman, but he did join the Sturmabteilung, the Nazi Party's early paramilitary wing.
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Helmut Kallmeyer later claimed that, as a member of a German sailing club, he had been automatically transferred into the SA.
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In September 1941, Helmut Kallmeyer was discharged from the Kriegsmarine for special home front duty.
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Immediately following his discharge, Helmut Kallmeyer was personally recruited by Brack for Action T4.
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Supposedly, Helmut Kallmeyer returned to Berlin after a week, where he was ordered to start an analysis of drinking water.
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Helmut Kallmeyer was admitted to a hospital on 28 February 1942 with typhus.
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In 1946, Helmut Kallmeyer was interrogated as a witness in connection with the Doctors' trial in Nuremberg.
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Helmut Kallmeyer denied having been aware of anything concerning the euthanasia murders.
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Helmut Kallmeyer downplayed his subsequent work at KTI; he claimed that he had never had anything to do with gas and poison.