Hans-Joachim Lang

Hans-Joachim Lang
Hans-Joachim Lang, December 2014
Born	(1951-08-06) 6 August 1951 (age 73) Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany
Occupation	Journalist, historian, political science
Language	German
Education	Ph.D. (1980)
Alma mater	University of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg
Years active	1980–present
Notable work	Die Namen der Nummern Hoffmann und Campe, 2004, ISBN 3-455-09464-3
Website
www.die-namen-der-nummern.de
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Hans-Joachim Lang (born 6 August 1951) is a German journalist, historian, and adjunct professor of cultural anthropology at the Ludwig-Uhland Institute for Empirical Cultural Studies University of Tübingen.^[1] Dr. Lang researched and authored the award-winning book Die Namen der Nummern (The Names of the Numbers), published in 2004, which identified all of the victims murdered in the gas chamber of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp for Nazi anatomist August Hirt as part of his plan to create a pseudo-scientific Jewish skeleton collection during World War II.