Waldemar Hoven
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Waldemar Hoven was born Febrauary 10th, 1903 - and after studying medicine in the United States, joined the SS in 1934
He served as chief Doctor for the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, where he was responsible for euthanizing prisoners with injections of either phenol or gasoline.
German Trial
He was also responsible for the lethal injections of aconitine given to several imprisoned former SS officers who were potential witnesses against Koch, who was then under investigation. Hoven was then put on trial by the SS, and the presiding SS judge Konrad Morgen, supposedly proved Hoven's guilt by feeding aconitine to Russian prisoners of war who then died of the same symptoms as the SS officers. He was convicted and sentenced to death, though he only spent 18 months in captivity at Buchenwald before being pardoned - given the Nazi shortage of doctors.
War Crimes Trial
During the Doctors' Trial(a part of the larger Nuremburg Trials) he was found guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and membership in a criminal organization; he was hanged on June 2, 1948 at Landsberg prison in Bavaria.
Trivia
He was rumoured to have had an affair with Ilse Koch