12 Facts About Johann Kremer

Johann Paul Kremer was a German professor, physician and war criminal.

Johann Kremer was a professor of anatomy and human genetics at Munster University who joined the Wehrmacht on May 20,1941.

Johann Kremer served in the SS in the Auschwitz concentration camp as a physician from 30 August 1942 to 18 November 1942.

Johann Kremer was sentenced to death in the Auschwitz Trial, but this sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment.

Johann Kremer studied in Heidelberg, Strassburg as well as Berlin; he received his philosophy degree in 1914 and his medical degree in 1919.

Johann Kremer was the assistant surgeon at the surgical clinic of the University, Charite, the ward of internal diseases of the Municipal Hospital Berlin-Neukolln, the surgical clinic of the University of Cologne and prosector in the Institutes of Anatomy in Bonn and Munster.

Johann Kremer became Dozent of anatomy in 1929 and was promoted there in 1936 to be professor in commission.

Kremer was particularly interested in the effects of starvation on the human body, especially on the liver, and because Kremer was responsible for examining the prisoners that sought admission to the camp infirmary, he was able to personally select the prisoners that he believed would make good test subjects for his experiments.

Johann Kremer often performed autopsies in order to extract samples from the liver, spleen and pancreas.

Johann Kremer was tried in the Auschwitz trials at the sitting of the Supreme Court National Tribune in Krakow throughout November and December 1947.

Johann Kremer was stripped of his civil rights for five years, and was later stripped of all of his medical titles.

Johann Kremer went on to testify in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.