Karl Franz F. Brandt

German Nazi SS officer and physician, executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity (1904-1948)

• Born: 1904-01-08 (Mulhouse)
• Died: 1948-06-02 (Landsberg Prison)
• Country of citizenship: Germany
• Occupation: physician; politician; surgeon
• Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
• Member of: Schutzstaffel (since: 1934-07-29); Sturmabteilung (since: 1933-01-01)
• Participant in: Aktion T4; Nazi executions of ill people; Nuremberg Medical Trial (role: defendant)
• Significant person: Adolf Hitler (date: 1942-01-01; role: personal physician; since: 1934-01-01); Herbert H. Meyer (role: defendant, interrogator); Paul Rostock (role: superior; since: 1944-02-01); Robert Servatius (role: criminal defense lawyer, defendant)
• Military rank: Gruppenführer
• Military branch: Schutzstaffel (military rank: Obersturmbannführer, Obersturmführer, Untersturmführer; since: 1934-07-29, 1935-01-01, 1939-04-20); Waffen-SS (military rank: SS-Brigadeführer, SS-Gruppenführer, Standartenführer; since: 1939-09-01, 1942-07-28, 1943-01-30, 1944-04-20)
• Employer: Adolf Hitler (role: patient, physician); Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil; Humboldt University of Berlin
• Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• Place of detention: Nuremberg Court Prison (date: 1947-01-01)
• Spouse: Anni Rehborn (since: 1934-03-17)
• VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/8181132
• ISNI: https://isni.org/isni/0000000066748485
• WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n88613186
• Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88613186