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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claus Schilling has received more than 216,210 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Claus Schilling is the 370th most popular physician (down from 286th in 2019), the 2,869th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,141st in 2019) and the 59th most popular German Physician.

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  • 1.78

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Claus Schilling ranks 370 out of 726. Before him are Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard, Adolph Kolping, Garcia de Orta, Ali ibn Ridwan, Bénédict Morel, and Robert Remak. After him are Hiraga Gennai, Karl Genzken, Michael Maier, Walter Jackson Freeman II, Johann Kremer, and Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Claus Schilling ranks 74. Before him are George Washington, John Millington Synge, Wilhelm von Mirbach, Arthur Tansley, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, and Ivan Poddubny. After him are David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Hubert Cecil Booth, Emily Carr, Kōtoku Shūsui, Oscar Wisting, and Martin Knudsen. Among people deceased in 1946, Claus Schilling ranks 101. Before him are Louis Zutter, Béla Imrédy, George Washington, Max Pauly, Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, and Gerda Steinhoff. After him are John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Friedrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Ahmad Kasravi, Max von Oppenheim, Albert Sechehaye, and François de La Rocque.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Claus Schilling ranks 2,869 out of 7,253. Before him are Paula Mollenhauer (1908), Hamit Altıntop (1982), Judith of Thuringia (1135), Beatrice of Swabia (1198), Wilhelm Leibl (1844), and Luigi Colani (1928). After him are Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (1888), Susanna of Bavaria (1502), Johannes Werner (1468), Elga Andersen (1935), Cornelia Funke (1958), and Harold Faltermeyer (1952).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Germany

Among physicians born in Germany, Claus Schilling ranks 59. Before him are Johann Peter Frank (1745), Ewald Hering (1834), Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819), Justinus Kerner (1786), Johann von Staupitz (1465), and Adolph Kolping (1813). After him are Karl Genzken (1885), Michael Maier (1568), Johann Kremer (1883), Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin (1744), Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus (1776), and Karl Friedrich Burdach (1776).

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