# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/horst-fischer
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:19:25.773Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/horst-fischer"
name: "Horst Fischer"
slug: "horst-fischer"
description: "Horst Paul Silvester Fischer was a German medical doctor and member of the SS who participated in selections in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. He selected at least 70,000 prisoners to be gassed, then supervised their gassings. Although he avoided immediate detection after the war, Fischer's crimes came to light in the late 1950s. After tracking him down, Fischer was arrested by East German secret police officials in 1965. In a high-profile public case tried directly by the Supreme Court of East Germany, Fischer, the highest-ranking concentration camp doctor to ever stand trial in front of a German court, was found guilty of crimes against humanity and condemned to death. He was executed by guillotine in 1966."
tagline: "German physician and camp doctor in the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp (1912–1966)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Horst_Fischer.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Doctors"
  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1912-12-31"
deathDate: "1966-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.77
  momentum:             0.6666666666666665
  historical:           12.265844
  currentAttention:     3.703703703703703
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82_%D0%A4%D1%96%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Горст Фішер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B4%D8%B1"
    title: "هورست فيشر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Fischer_(Mediziner)"
    title: "Horst Fischer (Mediziner)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CE%BF%CF%81%CF%83%CF%84_%CE%A6%CE%AF%CF%83%CE%B5%CF%81"
    title: "Χορστ Φίσερ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Fischer"
    title: "Horst Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Fischer"
    title: "Horst Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%98_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8"
    title: "הורסט פישר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Fischer"
    title: "Horst Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Fischer"
    title: "Horst Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%98%B8%EB%A5%B4%EC%8A%A4%ED%8A%B8_%ED%94%BC%EC%85%94"
    title: "호르스트 피셔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Fischer"
    title: "Horst Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Paul_Silvester_Fischer"
    title: "Horst Paul Silvester Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D1%82"
    title: "Фишер, Хорст"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Fischer"
    title: "Horst Fischer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q75098"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump