Hans-Joachim Lang
- January 5, 2024
- Historian
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Hans-Joachim Lang Biography
| Name | Hans-Joachim Lang |
| Birthday | Aug 6 |
| Birth Year | 1951 |
| Home Town | Speyer |
| Birth Country | Germany |
| Birth Sign | Leo |
Hans-Joachim Lang is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on August 6, 1951 in Speyer, Germany. Hans Joachim Lang standing in front of the plaque to honor the 86 Jews who were killed in August 1943 at the Natzweiler-Struthof gas chamber.
Lang wrote an article for Die Zeit about the execution of the West German government’s last murder victim in 1948. This was in the wake of World War II.
At the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial in 1946, Hirt’s anatomy assistant, Henri Henrypierre (or Henripierre) testified that he noted numbers tattooed on the arms of the corpses brought to the Institute, and kept a secret recording of them hidden in the apartment of his romantic interest. August Hirt was sentenced to death in absentia at the Military War Crimes Trial at Metz on 23 December 1953, however it was unknown at the time that Hirt had shot himself in the head on 2 June 1945 at Schluchsee, Baden-Württemberg.
Lang received a doctorate in German Studies and Political Science from the University of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg in 1980, where he studied under the French sociologist Freddy Raphael. In 1982, he became the editor of the scientific section of the newspaper Schwäbisches Tagblatt in Tübingen. He joined the faculty at his alma mater, University of Tübingen, as an Adjunct Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies.
The discovery of 86 bodies at the Anatomical Institute of Reichsuniversitat Strassburg was reported in the London newspaper Daily Mail on 3 January 1945. The remains were photographed by the “French Office of Investigations of War Crimes”, which documented their findings. The evidence collected was the basis for August Hirt’s 1954 trial by the War Crimes Tribunal at Metz. The French military that controlled Strasbourg gave up on trying to identify the victims. Instead, they buried them in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery.
Hans-Joachim Lang Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Historian |
| House | Living in own house. |
Hans-Joachim Lang is one of the richest Historian from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Hans-Joachim Lang 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Beger and Fleischbacker selected 29 women and 57 men, from 8 different countries, from Jewish prisoners held in Auschwitz. They then brought them to Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camps where skull xrays and blood groups were taken. The camp commander killed 86 prisoners in the gas chamber that was built by the SS to test poison gas on prisoners by medical professors. It was constructed outside the camp by Beger and Fleischbacker on the 11th, 13th, 17th, and 19th of August 1943. The victims were taken by the SS to the Reichsuniversitat Strassburg. These bodies were preserved in formalin and hidden in the basement at the Anatomy Institute until the arrival of the Allies troops. The U.S. liberated Strasbourg on 23 November 1944. Seventh Army, under General Alexander Patch. The investigation was reopened by the French military tribunal three weeks later.
The SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Bruno Beger (from Munich) and Hans Fleischhacker (from Tubingen) were anthropologists who selected 86 Jewish prisoners from Auschwitz for the SS research organisation “Ahnenerbe”. They supported a plan by August Hirt, an anatomy professor, to establish a Jewish anatomical skeleton collection. Hirt was appointed in 1941 as the head of the Anatomical Institute of the Reichsuniversitat Strassburg, the Reichs University of Strasbourg.
Hans-Joachim Lang (born 6 August 1951) is a German journalist, historian, and Adjunct Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies University of Tübingen. Dr. Lang researched and authored the award-winning book Die Namen der Nummern (The Names of the Numbers), published in 2004, which identified all of the victims murdered in the gas chamber of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp for Nazi anatomist August Hirt as part of his plan to create a pseudo-scientific Jewish skeleton collection during World War II.
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In an article which appeared in the Annals of Anatomy in 2013, Lang said:
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