15 Facts About Carl Clauberg

Carl Clauberg was a German gynecologist who conducted medical experiments on human subjects at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Carl Clauberg worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz concentration camp.

Carl Clauberg was released in 1955 under a prisoner exchange agreement, and he returned to Germany and continued to practice medicine.

Carl Clauberg was born in 1898 in Wupperhof, Rhine Province, into a family of craftsmen.

Carl Clauberg joined the Nazi party in 1933 and later was appointed associate professor of gynaecology at the University of Konigsberg.

Carl Clauberg carried out research on female fertility hormones and their application as infertility treatments, obtaining a habilitation for this work in 1937.

Carl Clauberg received the rank of SS-Gruppenfuhrer of the Reserve.

Himmler agreed, and in December 1942 Carl Clauberg moved to Auschwitz concentration camp.

Carl Clauberg's laboratory was in a part of the Block 10 in the main camp.

Carl Clauberg's goal was to find an easy and cheap method to sterilize women.

Carl Clauberg injected caustic substances into their uteruses without anesthetics.

Carl Clauberg's answer was satisfactory: One doctor with 10 assistants should be able to conduct sterilization of a few hundred, or even a few thousand, Jews in one day.

Carl Clauberg returned to West Germany, where he was reinstated at his former clinic based on his prewar scientific output.

Carl Clauberg died before trial on 9 August 1957 in Kiel, Germany.

The Carl Clauberg test is an obsolete bioassay to assess progestational activity based on the conversion of proliferative endometrium to secretory endometrium in immature rabbits.