Richard Glücks
Richard Glücks was a high-ranking German SS functionary during the Nazi era. From November 1939 until the end of World War II, he commanded the Concentration Camps Inspectorate, later integrated into the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office as "Amt D". As a direct subordinate of Heinrich Himmler, he was responsible for the forced labour of the camp inmates and was the supervisor for the medical practices in the camps, ranging from Nazi human experimentation to the implementation of the "Final Solution", in particular the mass murder of inmates with Zyklon B gas. After Germany capitulated, Glücks committed suicide by swallowing a potassium cyanide capsule.
22 April 1889
Born on the same birth day (22 April): Adam Raphael • Aivars Kalējs • Charlotte Rae • David Luiz • Germaine de Staël • Izidor Cankar • John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville • John Pritchard (bishop) • Paul Chambers • Richard Diebenkorn • Robert Bárány • Sam W. Heads • Solomon Caesar Malan • Spyros Markezinis • Vladimir Lenin • William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg • Zoltán Gera
Born in the same month (April 1889): A. Philip Randolph • Adrian Boult • Charlie Chaplin • Efrem Zimbalist • Karel Doorman • Louis Rougier • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Lyubov Popova • Marcel Boussac • Paul Karrer • Thomas Hart Benton (painter)