Joachim Mrugowsky

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Joachim Mrugowsky (August 15, 1905 in Rathenow – June 2, 1948) Hygienist. Associate Professor, Medical Doctorate, Chief of Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS. Senior Hygienist at the Reich Physician SS, SS and Walfen SS Colonel, defendant in the Doctors Trial.

[edit] Early life

His father was a general practitioner, who was killed at the beginning of World War I.

In 1925, Joachim Mrugovsky began his studies of natural sciences and medicine in Halle. He completed the studies in 1930-1931 with a medical doctorate and a doctorate of natural sciences.

After a two-year internship, he became an assistant at the Hygiene Institute of the University of Halle. Mrugowsky was made an associate professor in the area of hygiene at the University of Berlin, September 1944.

[edit] Career in the Third Reich

Since 1930, Mrugowsky had been involved in the Nazi ideology, first being the group leader of a local National Socialist German Students' Association then the NSDAP party member (No. 210,049). In 1931, he joined the SS where he achieved the rank of colonel in both the General SS and the Waffen SS.

In 1940, as the troop physician of an SS "Das Reich" Division hospital company, Mrugowsky participated in the conquest of the Western Europe.

[edit] Trial and execution

He was implicated in all medical experiments, with the exception of the aviation ones, which were conducted on concentration camp prisoners. He was prosecuted at the Nuremberg Medical Trial. Mrugowsky was condemned to death in August 1947, and executed on June 2, 1948.