Erwin Gohrbandt

Erwin Gohrbandt (September 20, 1890, in Schlawe, Pomerania, (Polish - Sławno, north-western Poland) – January 3, 1965, in West Berlin) was a German surgeon and war criminal who participated in human experimentation at Dachau Concentration Camp.

After graduating from high school in Treptow an der Rega in 1910, Gohrbandt studied medicine from 1910 to 1914 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Academy for Military Medical Education in Berlin.

In 1931, Gohrbandt, with Ludwig Levy-Lenz, was one of the first surgeons to perform sex reassignment surgery with vaginoplasty on some transgender patients - a pioneering experimental achievement at the time.

Known by name are the patients Dora Richter,[3] a domestic worker at the Institute for Sexology under Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Danish artist Lili Elbe.

[5][verification needed] On October 26 and 27 of 1942 at Deutscher Hog Hotel, Nuremberg, Gohrbandt participated in a secret conference during which Sigmund Rascher and Georg August Weltz spoke on topics related to the freezing experiments.

He was commissioned by the Soviet military administration in Germany and the Berlin magistrate to ensure sanitation and to monitor hygiene regulations.