Waldemar Hoven
SS officer
Died when: 45 years 113 days (543 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Waldemar Hoven (10 February 1903 – 2 June 1948) was a Nazi and a physician at Buchenwald concentration camp.Hoven was born in Freiburg, Baden, Germany.
Between 1919 and 1921, Hoven visited Denmark and Sweden to study agriculture.In the 1920s, he visited the United States, where he worked as a movie extra in Hollywood.
In the 1930s, Hoven went to Paris, where he had an affair with an American woman who gave him an extremely valuable gold cigarette case.
Hoven finally returned home to Freiburg in 1933, where he completed his high school studies.He then attended the Universities of Freiburg and Munich.
In 1934, he joined the SS.In 1939, he concluded his medical studies and became a physician for the SS.Hoven rose to the rank of Hauptsturmführer (Captain) in the Waffen SS.
Hoven was involved in the administration of medical experiments regarding typhus and the tolerance of serum containing phenol, and which led to the deaths of many inmates.
He was also involved in the Aktion T4 programs, during which people with disabilities were killed, along with Jewish people who were considered unfit for work.
According to other prisoners, Hoven was murdering 90 to 100 prisoners every week, for a year and a half, with phenol injections.
He was arrested by the Nazis on 12 September 1943, accused of giving a lethal injection of phenol to Hauptscharführer Rudolph Köhler, an SS officer who was a potential witness in an investigation against Ilse Koch, with whom Hoven was rumoured to be having an affair.
Hoven was convicted and sentenced to death, although he was released on 15 March 1945 due to the Nazi shortage of doctors.
