Erich Meyer (race theorist)

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Erich Meyer (* 1905 in Halle ; † unknown) was a National Socialist German racial theorist .

After graduating from high school in Leipzig in 1925, Meyer studied natural sciences at the University of Halle until his doctorate in 1928. Then he became a trainee and assessor at the Helmholtz School in Leipzig. In 1932 he joined the Nazi teachers' association and in 1933 the NSDAP . In 1933 the anti-Semite became the acting director of the Higher Israelite School in Leipzig (Carlebach School) for one year and ensured that the school founder Ephraim Carlebach left the school before he started teaching at the Lößnitzgymnasium in Radebeul from 1934 onwards . He became an employee of the Reich clerk for race issues of the NSLB Karl Zimmermann . In 1939 he was given leave of absence from school service in order to complete the racist biology book for high schools "Lebenskunde", which he published with Zimmermann .

“The whole lower physical stage of development of the Negro racial group corresponds to the spiritual. . . Compared to Europeans, negroes live carefree throughout the day. He lacks a preventive sense, perseverance, enterprising spirit and ambition. In the aptitude tests that American soldiers were subjected to during the war, the Negroes did much worse on average than the white soldiers. The so-called "Negro leaders" of America are all mixed race. Adult negroes also give Europeans a childlike impression; like a child, the negro is indulged in sensory impressions without giving much thought to the consequences of his actions. The organizational and state-building talent of the Negro is also low. They did not create any states corresponding to the European or Asian societies. Negro states, such as Haiti or Liberia , show a primitive Negro culture in addition to an outwardly assumed European civilization. "(Excerpt from" Lebenskunde ")

Fonts

  • New sensory biological observations on spiders . Dissertation Halle 1928
  • with Werner Dittrich : (Kleine) Erb- und Rassenkunde , Breslau 1933 (several regional editions)
  • Introduction to race theory , Kupky and Dietze, Radebeul 1936
  • Dr. Erich Meyer's colored identification booklet of the flora and fauna , flowering plants of the homeland , Erfurt 1942
  • With Karl Zimmermann: life skills. Biology book for secondary schools , 4 volumes, Erich Stenger, Erfurt 1934–1944 (several editions)

literature

  • Hans-Christian Harten, Uwe Neirich, Matthias Schwerendt: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich: Bio-bibliographical manual. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2006, p. 194. u. 492.
  • Barbara Kowalzik: Teacher's book: the teachers of the Leipzig Jewish school works, 1912-1942. Presented in biograms. Leipzig University Press 2006

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Barbara Kowalzik: Teacher's book. 2006, p. 81 , accessed on July 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Erich Meyer: Lebenskunde. Biology book for high schools. Retrieved July 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist racial theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH 20th century