Hoven, Waldemar, born 10-02-1903 in Freiburg,
the son of an Oberpostassistenten, Peter Hoven, visited Denmark, Sweden, the United States, and France, between the years 1919 and 1933, returning in 1933 to Freiburg, because his brother had died, and where he completed his high school studies. His brother had a sanatorium and he worked temporary for him as an administrator, till 1925. He then attended the Universities of Freiburg and Munich. In 1934, he joined the SS, no 244.594. In 1939, he concluded his medical studies and became a physician for the SS.






Hoven was arrested by the Nazis in 1943, accused of giving a lethal injection of phenol to an SS officer who was a potential witness in an investigation against Ilse Koch,
with whom Hoven was rumoured to be having an affair. Ilse Koch-Köhler was married to SS Standartenfùhrer,
Karl Otto Koch
the commandant of Buchenwald. The “Hangman of Buchenwald” was Martin Sommer
an SS Hauptscharfführer
who served as a guard at the concentration camps of Dachau and Buchenwald. According to Morgen, Sommer had a secret compartment underneath the floor under his desk. He kept his private instruments of torture concealed within this compartment such as the needles he used to kill his victims after he was done torturing them, he would inject them with carbolic acid, or inject air into their veins causing their death by embolism. On occasions, after private late night torture sessions Sommer would hide his victim’s bodies under his bed until he could dispose of them in the morning. He was taken captive by the Red Army and was detained as P.O.W. until 1950 when his prisoner status was upgraded to war criminal. Sommer was released from Soviet captivity in 1955 as part of the negotiations conducted on behalf of Soviet held German prisoners by Konrad Adenauer.
SS Hauptsturmfùhrer
, Josef Mengele
infamous for performing human experiments on camp inmates in Auschwitz, including children, for which Mengele was called the “Angel of Death”. In July 1958 in Bayreuth (see Winifred Wagner)

















Death and burial ground of Hoven, Waldemar.















