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Emil Ketterer
German sprinter · Germany · On the map · Athletes · Lived 1883 to 1959 · aged 76
Emil Ketterer was a German physician and track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Later in his life, he joined the Nazi Party and its paramilitary organization, the Sturmabteilung (SA).
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He was the chief of the SA Medical Office in the Supreme SA Leadership from 1933 to 1937 and rose to the rank of SA-Obergruppenführer. As a medical doctor, he was a strong advocate of the euthanasia of disabled persons carried out under the Nazi regime. He was the father-in-law of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, an SS officer and West German business executive who was murdered by the Red Army Faction in 1977.
