Erich Traub

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1906 – 1985

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Who was Erich Traub?

Erich Traub was a German veterinarian and scientist/virologist who specialized in foot-and-mouth disease, Rinderpest and Newcastle disease. Traub was a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps, a Nazi motorist corps, from 1938 to 1942. He worked directly for Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel, as the lab chief of the Nazi's leading bio-weapons facility on Riems Island.

Traub was rescued from the Soviet zone of Germany after World War II and brought to the United States in 1949 under the auspices of the United States government program Operation Paperclip, meant to exploit the post-war scientific knowledge in Germany, and deny it to the Soviet Union.

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Born
1906
Profession
Education
  • Rockefeller University
Died
May 18, 1985
West Germany

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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