Eberhard Geyer

Eberhard Geyer (born May 11, 1899 in Vienna ; † February 5, 1942 fallen in Maloarchangelsk ) was an Austrian anthropologist and professor at the University of Vienna .

The son of the orientalist Rudolf Geyer began in 1924 with the genetic recording of human ears in various places (Vienna, Krems an der Donau , Gußwerk , Weichselboden ). From 1927 he taught as a professor at the Anthropological Institute of the University of Vienna, where he gave lectures on racial hygiene . Since 1931 he was a member of Josef Weninger's genetic biology study group . In 1932 he completed his habilitation on material from Lapland. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP in Austria . He was head of the district headquarters in the Racial Political Office . He was also the second chairman of the Vienna Society for Race Care and the lecture secretary of the “ Anthropological Society in Vienna ”. In 1938 he succeeded the dismissed Josef Weninger in the management of the Anthropological Institute in Vienna. A "race diagnosis" according to the Swedish anthropologist Essen-Möller was also set up as an exact method for determining paternity determinations . His assistant Karl Tuppa and Dora Kahlich-Könner represented him when he was no longer able to teach from 1941 because of his military service. Elfriede Fliethmann is one of the students .

Fonts

• The anthropological results of the with the support of the Akad. D. Knowledge in Vienna organized Lapland expedition 1913/14 , Mitt. der Anthropolog. Society Vienna 62, 1932
• The races and peoples on the soil of Austria , 1936

literature

• Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? , Frankfurt am Main, 2003
• Gudrun Exner: Population Statistics and Population Science in Austria 1938 to 1955 , Böhlau, Vienna a. a. 2007
• Karl Pusman: The "human sciences" on Viennese soil (1870-1959): the Anthropological Society in Vienna ... , Lit, Vienna-Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-8258-0472-5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Exner, p. 207