Hans Conrad Julius Reiter (February 26, 1881 – November 25, 1969) was a German Nazi physician and war criminal who conducted medical experiments at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
He wrote a book on "racial hygiene" called Deutsches Gold, Gesundes Leben - Frohes Schaffen.Reiter was born in Reudnitz, near Leipzig in the German Empire.
He studied medicine at Leipzig and Breslau (now Wroclaw), and received a doctorate from Tübingen on the subject of tuberculosis.
After receiving his doctorate, he went on to study at the hygiene institute in Berlin, the Pasteur Institute in Paris and St.
Mary's Hospital in London, where he worked with Sir Almroth Wright for two years.
Reiter was also known for implementing strict anti-smoking laws in Nazi Germany.