Günther Hillmann

Günther Hillmann (15 April 1919 in Ludwigslust – 8 May 1976 in Nuremberg) was a German biochemist. During the Second World War he helped advise Otmar von Verschuer, head of the KWI on anthropology, and helped work on a research project in which the concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele delivered blood samples from Auschwitz concentration camp for him to analyze. After the war, he worked as a scientist in the Federal Republic and directed the Chemical Institute of the Nuremberg Hospitals for the rest of his life. He was also known for working of Thyronine.

Publications Über die Spaltung racemischer Aminosäuren in die optischen Antipoden in Verbindung mit der Peptidsynthese. (1947). Synthese des Schilddrüsenhormons. Tübingen 1955. Biosynthese und Stoffwechselwirkungen der Schilddrüsenhormone. Tübingen 1961.