Claus Karl Schilling | |
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 Claus Schilling sitting before a tribunal in November 1945 | |
| Born | 5 July 1871 |
| Died | 28 May 1946 (aged 74) |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation(s) | Tropical medicine, medical research |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Motive | Malaria research |
| Conviction(s) | War crimes |
| Trial | Dachau camp trial |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Details | |
| Victims | ~300–400+ |
Span of crimes | 1938–1945 |
| Country | Germany and Italy |
| Location(s) | Italian psychiatric hospitals Dachau concentration camp |
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.