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Hans-Wolfgang Romberg was a doctor of German aviation medicine who participated in the Nuremberg Medical Trials at Dachau and Nazi human experiments. . He was indicted in the Nuremberg medical trial, but acquitted on August 20, 1947.

Early life
Romberg studied medicine at both the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Innsbruck from 1929, and graduated in 1935. He then worked as an assistant doctor in Friedrichshain hospital between April 1936 to 1938.

Nazi Germany
In 1938, he first became an assistant and later head of department at the Institut für Flugmedizin der Deutschen Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt in Berlin-Adlershof under Siegfried Ruff.

In 1940, he received his doctorate in Berlin.

In 1942, together with Sigmund Rascher and Ruff, he carried out high-altitude experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp — some of which ended fatally.

Post-war career
Romberg was acquitted in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial in 1947.

He later ran a medical practice in Düsseldorf.

Investigations by the public prosecutor at the Munich II Regional Court against Romberg, and Siegfried Ruff were dropped in 1959.



Death
On 6 September 1981, Romberg died at the age of 70.