Eduard Wirths

Eduard Wirths
Born	(1909-09-04)4 September 1909 Geroldshausen, German Empire
Died	20 September 1945(1945-09-20) (aged 36) Staumühle, Allied-occupied Germany
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Schutzstaffel
Years of service	1933–1945
Rank	SS-Obersturmbannführer
Commands held	Formal responsibility of medical staff at Auschwitz; human medical experimentation performed on prisoners at Auschwitz
Awards	War Merit Cross 1st Class With Swords German Social Welfare Decoration 2nd Class
Spouse(s)	Gertrud Petavy
Children	4

Eduard Wirths (4 September 1909 – 20 September 1945) was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at the Auschwitz concentration camp from September 1942 to January 1945. Thus, Wirths had formal responsibility for everything undertaken by the nearly twenty SS doctors (including Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann and Carl Clauberg) who worked in the medical sections of Auschwitz between 1942 and 1945.