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Wolfram Sievers

Wolfram Sievers, German physician (died 1948)

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Born
July 10, 1905
Died
June 2, 1948
Zodiac sign
Cancer
Birth year
1905

About Wolfram Sievers

Wolfram Sievers was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director of the Ahnenerbe from 1935–1945. He was convicted of war crimes in the Doctors' Trial in 1947 and executed by hanging in 1948. In 1933, he headed the Externsteine-Stiftung ('Externsteine Foundation'), which had been founded by Heinrich Himmler to study the Externsteine in the Teutoburger Wald. In 1943, Sievers became director of the Ahnenerbe's Institut für Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung ('Institute for Military Scientific Research'), which conducted extensive experiments using human subjects.

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Wolfram Sievers timeline

  1. In 1933, he headed the Externsteine-Stiftung ('Externsteine Foundation'), which had been founded by Heinrich Himmler to study the Externsteine in the Teutoburger Wald.
  2. In 1943, Sievers became director of the Ahnenerbe's Institut für Wehrwissenschaftliche Zweckforschung ('Institute for Military Scientific Research'), which conducted extensive experiments using human subjects.

The world when Wolfram Sievers was born

Wolfram Sievers was born in 1905. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1905

  • Best-selling book"The Marriage of William Ashe" – Mrs. Humphry Ward

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentChristy Mathewson pitches 3 shutouts in the World Series
  • Top headlineEinstein publishes theory of special relativity
  • Technology milestoneEinstein's "miracle year" — E=mc²
  • World population~1.65B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderTheodore Roosevelt
  • U.S. population83.2M

1905 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Wolfram Sievers's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19052026
Population83.2M341 million

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