# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/waldemar-hoven
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:57:59.642Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/waldemar-hoven"
name: "Waldemar Hoven"
slug: "waldemar-hoven"
description: "Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many concentration camp prisoners, and as one of the organizers of the euthanasia program Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 2 June 1948."
tagline: "German physician, SS officer and convicted war criminal (1903-1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Waldem_Hoven.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1903-02-10"
deathDate: "1948-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.61
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.63244666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump