German Society for Physical Anthropology

The German Society for Physical Anthropology was founded on August 3, 1925 under the chairmanship of the German "racial researcher" and later National Socialist Eugen Fischer . From 1937 it was called the German Society for Race Research and existed until 1945.

History until 1945

The society was the association of German scientifically oriented anthropologists . In doing so, you left the association with the other subjects in the German Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory . The first conference took place on 13./14. April 1926 in Freiburg i. B. instead. She edited the magazine "Anthropologischer Anzeiger" and usually published the negotiations of the Society for Physical Anthropology every year . The contents prepared the National Socialist Racial Hygiene . The name was changed in 1937 at the suggestion of Fischer and the chairman Otto Reche , but against the resistance of Egon von Eickstedt . Mengele attended the meetings as a member from 1937.

After 1945

The successor organization from 1948 was the German Society for Anthropology founded by Eickstedt (University of Mainz) in Weinheim (second chairman was Günther Just in 1949 ), from 1965 Society for Anthropology and Human Genetics. The chairman was Wilhelm Gieseler until 1958 , who had also headed the "Society for Race Research" from 1937 to 1945. He also published the Anthropological Gazette again .

After a year of preparation, the Society for Anthropology eV was founded in 1992 as the joint successor society of the "German Anthropological Society" (formerly GDR) and the Society for Anthropology and Human Genetics in the old federal states. It sees itself as a representative of all anthropologists and human biologists in German-speaking countries.

literature

Uwe Hoßfeld : History of biological anthropology in Germany. From the beginning until the post-war period. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08563-7 .
Literature from and about the German Society for Physical Anthropology in the catalog of the German National Library

Web links

Homepage of the Society for Anthropology

Individual evidence

↑ Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 176.

[1] Ute Felbor: Racial Biology and Hereditary Science in the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg 1937–1945. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1995, ISBN 3-88479-932-0 (= Würzburg medical-historical research. Supplement 3.) - At the same time: Dissertation Würzburg 1995), p. 176.