Carl Lautenschläger

Carl Ludwig Lautenschläger (1888 to 1962) was a German chemist and physician, born and died in Karlsruhe. He was tried during the IG Farben Trial but was acquitted. The son of the architect Ludwig Lautenschläger, he trained in pharmacy before studying chemistry, medicine and pharmacy at several universities, received a doctorate in engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 1913 and an MD from the University of Freiburg in 1919, and in 1920 became a non-tenured professor of pharmacy at the University of Greifswald. In 1920 he joined the pharmaceutical department of Hoechst, by 1922 was in charge of the company's Science Office, and in 1931 became an alternate member of the managing board of IG Farben. He first concentrated his research on developing drugs against diabetes, and his remit later widened to drugs for vaccination and pest control.