Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

ERICH TRAUB

He was a veterinarian, scientist and virologist. He was a specialist in foot and mouth disease, rinderpest and new castle disease.He was the lab chief of bio weapons facility at Reims island directly under Heinrich himmlers the chief of SS . After war,  USA extricated him from soviet zone and he was taken to USA under paperclip programme. In USA he worked in Bio warfare development From 1949 to 1953 and then he returned to Germany. In Germany he opened a new branch of loefor institute for research and headed it from 1953 to 1963. later he worked in German civil service and retired in 1971. In 1972 he was honored with a honorary doctorate by Ludwig Maximilian University at Munich for his outstanding contribution in research. He passed away in May 1985 at the age of 77 years.