Erwin Ding-Schuler

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Who was Erwin Ding-Schuler?

Erwin Oskar Ding-Schuler was a German surgeon and an officer in the Waffen-SS who attained the rank of Sturmbannführer. He is notable for having performed experiments on inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Ding-Schuler joined the NSDAP in 1932 and the SS in 1936. In 1937 he received his degree and passed his second state exam in medicine. An author of scientific publications, in 1939 he became camp physician at Buchenwald and head of the division for spotted fever and viral research of the Waffen-SS Hygiene Institute in Weimar-Buchenwald. Until 1945 he conducted extensive medical experiments in Experimental Station Block 46, using various poisons as well as infective agents for spotted fever, yellow fever, smallpox, typhus, and cholera.

Erwin Ding-Schuler was arrested by U.S. troops on 25 April 1945 and committed suicide on 11 August 1945.

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Born
Sep 19, 1912
Bitterfeld
Also known as
  • Динг-Шулер, Эрвин
Died
Aug 11, 1945
Freising

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on July 23, 2013

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