Ludwig Stumpfegger

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SS-Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Stumpfegger (July 11, 1910 – May 2, 1945) was an SS doctor in World War II and Adolf Hitler's personal physician from 1944.

He initially worked as an assistant doctor under Prof. Karl Gebhardt in the Sanatorium Hohenlychen, which specialised in sports accidents. As a result of this experience, he was part of the medical team, along with Gebhardt, at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and the Winter Olympics of the same year in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

In 1939, the Hohenlychen was used by the SS as part of the war effort. Working under the supervision of Karl Gebhardt, Dr. Fritz Fischer and Dr. Herta Oberheuser, he participated in medical experiments, the subject of which were women from the concentration camp at Ravensbrück. The experiments included the transplantation of bone and muscle.

In 1945, Stumpfegger started working directly for Adolf Hitler in the Führerbunker in Berlin under the direction of Dr. Theodor Morell. At Hitler's request, he administered a cyanide tablet to Blondi, the German Shephard dog which was a gift from Martin Bormann, to see how quickly it worked. Hitler said he wanted to see how quickly the German Army generals would die after taking their cyanide tablets. As the Red Army advanced towards the bunker, he helped Magda Goebbels murder her children before she and husband Joseph Goebbels committed suicide.

He attempted to break out from the bunker with Martin Bormann and committed suicide with Bormann at the Lehrter Bahnhof by taking cyanide.