Ernst-Günther Schenck (3 October 1904 – 21 December 1998) was a German medical doctor and member of the SS in Nazi Germany.

Because of a chance encounter with Adolf Hitler during the closing days of World War II, his memoirs proved historically valuable.

[1] His accounts of this period are prominent in the works of Joachim Fest and James P. O'Donnell regarding the end of Hitler's life, and were included in the film Downfall (2004).

During the war, Schenck was actively involved in the creation of a large herbal plantation in Dachau concentration camp, which contained over 200,000 medicinal plants, from which, among other things, vitamin supplements for the Waffen-SS were manufactured.

[citation needed] In the Federal Republic of Germany, Schenck was later not allowed to continue his medical career.

[6] He also volunteered to work in an emergency casualty station located in the large cellar of the Reich Chancellery, near the Vorbunker and Führerbunker.

[10] During the battle, Schenck went out in a Wehrmacht truck into Berlin to obtain medical supplies to bring back to the casualty station.

Following their surrender, Schenck, Wilhelm Mohnke and other senior German officers from the group were treated to a banquet by the Chief of Staff of the 8th Guards Army with the permission of Lieutenant General Vasily Chuikov.