Heinz Lord

Lord, left, accepts the title of WMA Secretary-General from outgoing Louis Bauer, 1961.

Heinz Lord (March 21, 1917 – February 4, 1961 In April 1945, as the Allies invaded Hamburg, Lord and thousands of other prisoners were herded by the Nazis onto several cruise ships (including the former luxury liner Cap Arcona), sailed a few kilometers off the coast of Hamburg into a British-declared free fire zone, and were abandoned by their German guards. RAF bombers sank all the vessels. Lord was apparently on one of the smaller ships. According to cited 1961 articles in Canadian Medical Association Journal etc., "he was one of 28 survivors out of 800 inmates of the ship". He and the other few survivors leaped overboard before the bombers struck, and swam several miles to shore. Thousands of others were either killed by the bombing or drowned.

Lord returned to Hamburg He was credited with reestablishment of the Marburger Bund

In 1954 Lord emigrated to the United States. In 1957, after three years of residency at Bridgeport, Connecticut Hospital, He was a member of American Medical Association, fellow of International College of Surgeons and member of the German Urological Society. Lord was elected Secretary-General of the World Medical Association following the retirement of its founder Louis H. Bauer. However, on February 3, 1961, he collapsed at the AMA convention in Chicago and died on the following morning. His death at the age of 43 of a heart failure was linked to chronic effects of captivity.