Hermann Becker-Freyseng

German physician; consultant for aviation medicine with the Luftwaffe during the Nazi era; one of those convicted at the Doctors' Trial (1910-1961)

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Lived 1910–1961, aged 51Germany

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1910–1961
Aged 51

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Updated 2026-06-09

Hermann Becker-Freyseng was a German physician, consultant for aviation medicine with the Luftwaffe and a convicted Nazi war criminal, who oversaw human experimentation on concentration camp prisoners. Becker-Freyseng was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Doctors' Trial in 1947; he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 10 years and he was released in 1952.