Erwin Ding-Schuler

Erwin Ding-Schuler
Born	September 19, 1912(1912-09-19) Bitterfeld, Germany
Died	August 11, 1945(1945-08-11) (aged 32) Freising, Germany
Citizenship	Germany
Nationality	German
Known for	Waffen SS Surgeon at Buchenwald

Erwin Oskar Ding-Schuler (September 19, 1912 in Bitterfeld — August 11, 1945 in Freising) was a German surgeon and an officer in the Waffen-SS who attained the rank of Sturmbannführer (Major). He is notable for having performed experiments on inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

Ding-Schuler joined the NSDAP^[1] 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 (on some 1,000 inmates, many of whom lost their lives) in Experimental Station Block 46, using various poisons as well as infective agents for spotted fever, yellow fever, smallpox, typhus, and cholera.^[2]

Erwin Ding-Schuler committed suicide on 11 August 1945.^[2]

References

^ John Michael Steiner, Power Politics and Social Change in National Socialist Germany: A Process of Escalation into Mass Destruction, Walter de Gruyter, 1976, p. 213
^ ^a ^b Zenter, Christian and Bedürftig, Friedemann (1991). Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, p. 199. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0028975022

Williamson, Gordon (2006). The SS: Hitler's Instrument of Terror. New York: Barnes & Noble Publishing. pp. 304. ISBN 978-0-7607-8168-5. http://books.google.com/books?id=7gv7yPIdQdsC.

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Name	Ding-Schuler, Erwin
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Date of birth	19 September 1912
Place of birth	Bitterfeld, Germany
Date of death	11 August 1945
Place of death	Freising, Germany

Erwin Ding-Schuler

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