Fritz Fischer (medical doctor)

Fritz Ernst Fischer (born 5 October 1912, died 2003) was a German medical doctor who took part in surgical experiments on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Born in Berlin, he studied medicine at Bonn, Berlin and Leipzig and graduated in Hamburg in 1938. He joined the SS in 1934, eventually reaching the rank of Sturmbannführer, and became a member of the NSDAP in June 1937. From 1 November 1939 he was assigned as a physician to the Waffen-SS at the Hohenlychen Sanatorium, and in 1940 he became troop physician of the SS Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. After being wounded he returned to Hohenlychen and worked in the camp hospital of Ravensbrück as a surgical assistant to Karl Gebhardt. He was tried in the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg in 1947, convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment; the sentence was reduced to 15 years in 1951 and he was released in March 1954. He later regained his licence to practise medicine and worked for the chemical company Boehringer in Ingelheim until retirement. When he died in 2003, aged 90 or 91, he was the last known living person indicted at the Doctors' Trial.