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Claus Schilling

1871 - 1946

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Claus Karl Schilling (5 July 1871 – 28 May 1946), also recorded as Klaus Schilling, was a German tropical medicine specialist who participated in the Nazi human experiments at the Dachau concentration camp during World War II. Though never a member of the Nazi Party and a recognized researcher at the Robert Koch Institute before the war, Schilling participated in unethical and inhumane experiments on captive human subjects under both Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. From 1942 to 1945, Schilling's research on malaria and attempts at fighting it using synthetic drugs culminated in human experimentation on over a thousand camp prisoners at Dachau, of whom hundreds died. Sentenced to death by hanging at the Dachau camp trial after the fall of Hitler's Germany, he was executed for his crimes against the Dachau prisoners in 1946. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Claus Schilling is the 363rd most popular physician (up from 370th in 2019), the 2,680th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,869th in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Claus Schilling ranks 363 out of 726. Before him are Robert Remak, Carl Lange, Thomas Horsfield, Robert Darwin, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, and Petrus Camper. After him are Stamen Grigorov, Priscilla Chan, Gustav Hartlaub, Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser, Jean Pierre Flourens, and Ron Wyatt.

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Among people born in 1871, Claus Schilling ranks 67. Before him are Friedrich Akel, Wilhelm Stenhammar, William Heard Kilpatrick, Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe, Dame Gruev, and Arthur Tansley. After him are Leonidas Pyrgos, Wilhelm von Mirbach, Nándor Dáni, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, and David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty. Among people deceased in 1946, Claus Schilling ranks 97. Before him are Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Saint Alphonsa, Béla Imrédy, Robert Heinrich Wagner, Johannes Vares, and Martin Gottfried Weiss. After him are Bo Gu, Max Pauly, Harry Hopkins, Elisabeth Becker, Jack Johnson, and Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Claus Schilling ranks 2,681 out of 7,253. Before him are Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania (1580), Fritz Busch (1890), Alexander Braun (1805), Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia (1714), Heinrich Boie (1794), and Walter Ruttmann (1887). After him are Eric II, Duke of Pomerania (1418), Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1737), John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1550), Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp (1719), Dietmar Hopp (1940), and Christine of Saxony (1505).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Claus Schilling ranks 54. Before him are Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744), Dorothea Erxleben (1715), Richard Wilhelm (1873), Friedrich Hoffmann (1660), Karl Genzken (1885), and Johann von Staupitz (1465). After him are Gustav Hartlaub (1814), Johann Christian Reil (1759), Johann Peter Frank (1745), Paul Julius Möbius (1853), Johann Kremer (1883), and Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776).

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