Ludwig Stumpfegger
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SS-Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Stumpfegger (July 11 1910 – May 2 1945) was an SS doctor in World War II and Adolf Hitler's personal physician from 1944.
He initially worked as an assistant doctor under Prof. Karl Gebhardt in the Sanatorium Hohenlychen, which specialised in sports accidents. As a result of this experience, he was part of the medical team, along with Gebhardt, at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and the Winter Olympics of the same year in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
In 1939, the Hohenlychen was used by the SS as part of the war effort. Working under the supervision of Karl Gebhardt, Dr. Fritz Fischer and Dr. Herta Oberheuser, he participated in medical experiments, the subject of which were women from the concentration camp at Ravensbrück. The experiments included the transplantation of bone and muscle.
In 1945, Stumpfegger started working directly for Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker in Berlin. As the Red Army advanced towards the bunker, he helped Magda Goebbels murder her children before she and husband Joseph Goebbels committed suicide.
He attempted to break out from the bunker with Martin Bormann and committed suicide with Bormann at the Lehrter Bahnhof by taking cyanide.
April 22 | April 23
Julius Schaub • Christa Schröder • Johanna Wolf | Theodor Morell • Albert Speer
April 29 | April 30 | May 1
Robert Ritter von Greim • Hanna Reitsch • Heinz Lorenz • Wilhelm Zander • Heinrich Müller • Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven | Otto Günsche • Gerda Christian | Wilhelm Mohnke • Martin Bormann • Artur Axmann • Traudl Junge • Ludwig Stumpfegger • Hans Baur • Erich Kempka • Johann Rattenhuber • Günther Schwägermann • Werner Naumann • Hans-Erich Voss
Committed suicide | Killed
Adolf Hitler • Eva Braun • Hermann Fegelein • Joseph Goebbels • Magda Goebbels • Wilhelm Burgdorf • Peter Högl • Hans Krebs | Goebbels children
Date of departure uncertain
Heinz Linge • Walther Hewel • Constanze Manziarly • Nicholaus von Below
Still present when Soviet forces arrived on May 2
Rochus Misch • Erna Flegel • Werner Haase • Johannes Hentschel
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