Career
He is notable for having performed experiments on inmates of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Ding-Schuler joined the NSDAP in 1932 and the Steamship 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-Steamship 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. Erwin Ding-Schuler was arrested by United States. troops on 25 April 1945 and committed suicide on 11 August 1945.
