Wolfram Sievers

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Wolfram Sievers (Hildesheim, July 10, 1905- June 2, 1948) was an early manager (1935) of the Ahnenerbe.

Originally a bookseller, he joined the NSDAP in 1929, and later worked at the Dachau concentration camp with August Hirt and became, in 1943, deputy director/conductor of the adviser of the office for realm research. He participated in assembling a collection of skeletons for August Hirt's study at the Reichsuniversität Straßburg, and also participated in high altitude experiments and freezing experiments where concentration camp inmates were kept in ice-cold water until they lost consciousness or died. 280 to 300 prisoners died in the freezing experiments. ^[1]

Sievers was sentenced to death in 20 August of 1947 for crimes against humanity in the Doctors' Trial, and hanged on June 2, 1948.

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• Befragung beim Nürnberger Prozess (Englische Fassung)
• Kriegsverbrechergefängnis (WCP No 1) Landsberg
• Michael H. Kater: Das "Ahnenerbe" der SS 1935-1945. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-486-56529-X
• Hans-Joachim Lang: Die Namen der Nummern. Hoffmann und Campe, 2004, ISBN 3-455-09464-3