August Hirt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

August Hirt

German anatomist and SS officer

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1898

Place of Birth: Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 02-Jun-1945

Profession: physician, politician, university teacher, anatomist, torturer, concentration camp guard

Nationality: Switzerland, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

August Hirt (28 April 1898 – 2 June 1945) was an anatomist with Swiss and German nationality who served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II.
He performed experiments with mustard gas on inmates at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and played a lead role in the murders of 86 people at Natzweiler-Struthof for the Jewish skeleton collection.
The skeletons of his victims were meant to become specimens at the Institute of anatomy in Strasbourg, but completion of the project was stopped by the progress of the war.
He was an SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) and in 1944, an SS-Sturmbannführer (major).