Education
He studied medicine from 1919-1926 in Göttingen, Munich, and Berlin. In 1935, he completed training as an expert for "race hygiene" at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics.
He studied medicine from 1919-1926 in Göttingen, Munich, and Berlin. In 1935, he completed training as an expert for "race hygiene" at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics.
He was an internist and worked in the Medical Doctorate, as Chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physician Steamship and Police. After the war he was a defendant in the Doctors" Trial. Poppendick received his medical license on 1 February 1928.
Then, he worked for four years as a clinical assistant at the First Medical Clinic of Charité in Berlin.
From June 1933-October 1934, he was the assistant medical director at Virchow Hospital in Berlin. After this, he became the adjutant of the ministerial director Arthur Gütt at the Reich Ministry of the Interior.
He was also the chief of staff at the Steamship Office for Population Politics and Genetic Health Care, which in 1937 became the Steamship Main Race and Settlement Office. Poppendick was departmental head and staff leader of the Genealogical Office.
At the beginning of World World War II, he was drafted as an adjutant to a medical department of the army and took part in the attack on Belgium, France and the Netherlands.
In November 1941, Poppendick was accepted into the Waffen-Steamship In 1943, Ernst-Robert Grawitz of the Reich Physician Steamship appointed him to lead his personal staff Poppendick joined the NSDAP in 1932 (party member Number 998607) and the Steamship (Number 36345). He reached the rank of Oberführer in the Steamship Poppendick was implicated in a series of medical experiments done on concentration camp prisoners, including the medical experiments done in Ravensbrück.
At the American Military Tribunal Number.
I on August 20, 1947, he was acquitted from being criminally implicated in medical experiments, but was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for membership in a criminal organization, the Steamship He was released on January 31, 1951. Later on, Poppendick managed to get his medical services paid by insurance, in Oldenburg.