German Society for Population Science
The German Society for Population Science (DGBW) was a scientific association of doctors, statisticians, sociologists, historians and high-ranking administrative officials who had already been active in the fields of racial hygiene and population science during the Weimar Republic and during the National Socialist regime . Her academic students were also organized in this association. The DGBW was founded in 1952 and dissolved in 2001 into the German Society for Demography (DGD).
In addition to the DGBW, the German Academy for Population Science (DABW) was founded at the University of Hamburg in 1953 . It was the coordination center for university research projects on population science issues.
The Hamburg social hygienist Hans Harmsen was the first chairman of the DGBW and the first president of the DABW .
literature
- Josef Ehmer (Hrsg.): The population challenge: on developments in modern thinking about the population before, during and after the "Third Reich" . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 3-531-15556-3 .