Helmut Poppendick

Helmut Poppendick (1902 to 1994) was a physician and internist who served in the SS during the Second World War. He studied medicine at Göttingen, Munich and Berlin from 1919 to 1926, received his medical license in 1928 and worked as a clinical assistant at the Charité in Berlin and as assistant medical director at Virchow Hospital. In 1935 he completed training as an expert in race hygiene and later became chief of the personal staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police. He was implicated in the medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. At the 1947 Doctors' Trial he was acquitted of the experimentation charges but sentenced to ten years for SS membership, and was released in 1951.