Wilhelm Beiglböck

German physician (1905-1963); defendant in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial

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Lived 1905–1963, aged 58Austria
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    1905–1963
    Aged 58
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Updated 2026-06-19

Wilhelm Franz Josef Beiglböck was an internist Nazi physician and held the title of Consulting Physician to the German Luftwaffe during World War II. In the 1947 Doctors' Trial, he was tried and convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity for conducting human experimentation involving seawater on prisoners at Dachau concentration camp; he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, but his sentence was commuted to 10 years and he was released in 1951. He was found dead in a stairwell in 1963.

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