Hans Conrad Julius Reiter

Who was Hans Conrad Julius Reiter?

Hans Conrad Julius Reiter was a German physician convicted of war crimes for his medical experiments at the concentration camp at Buchenwald. 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 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.