German Doctor. Best known as the last personal physician of Adolph Hitler. After completing his medical training in 1933, he joined the SS in the same year. In 1935, he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party and from 1936 was the assistant of Dottor Karl Franz Gebhar at the Hospital of Hohenlychen, specialising in sports medicine. Due to the experience gained in this field, he was part of the medical team of the German Olympic team at the 1936 Summer Olympic in Berlin as well as at the 1936 Winter Olympics which took place at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. In 1939, the clinic where he worked became a military hospital of the SS and from 1942 onwards participated in several medical experiments on women interned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. These experiments led him to become an expert in bone and muscle transplants. In 1945, he joined the inner circle of Adolf Hitler, in Berlin. He was the one who before the arrival of the Red Army troops helped Magda Goebbels in killing her six children, before that she and her husband Joseph Goebbels committed suicide. After attempting to escape from Berlin along with Martin Bormann on 1 May, 1945, he decided to commit suicide by swallowing a cyanide dose to avoid capture by the Soviets.
Bio Author: Ruggero
Stumpfegger's death was only confirmed years later due to the excavation of his remains in 1972, which were subject to thorough forensic examination. During the examination glass splinters were found in his jaw bone indicating he had used cyanide as his preferred method of suicide. No other sign of injuries to his skeleton were observed. A witness named Albert Krumnow later claimed he had buried the bodies of Bormann and Stumpfegger together in the vicinity of where the skeletons were found.
Addendum: Shane