Günther Brandt

Günther Brandt (born October 1, 1898 in Kiel ; † 1973 ) was a German anthropologist and National Socialist .

Life

Günther Brandt joined the Imperial Navy in 1915 and was a lieutenant at sea in the First World War . Ehr was released there on March 31, 1919. As a member of the Ehrhardt Marine Brigade , he took part in the Kapp Putsch in 1920. He joined the NSDAP in 1921 and was thus one of the earliest so-called " old fighters " of the National Socialist movement. In the same year his doctorate Brandt as a doctor of medicine. In 1922 he was one of the accomplices in the murder of Reich Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau and was sentenced to four years in prison.

After his release from prison, Günther Brandt went to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology as an assistant in 1931 . He rejoined the NSDAP (membership number 2,579,863). After the " seizure of power " Brandt became department head in the Racial Politics Office of the NSDAP, rejoined the NSDAP (membership number 2,579,863) and became a lecturer at the German School of Politics, which is subordinate to the Reich Propaganda Ministry . In 1934 Brandt joined the SS and became a staff leader in the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA). From 1938 Brandt worked as SS-Obersturmbannführer in the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD).

Brandt served during the Second World War in the 12th UBootjagdflottille the Navy and was awarded the on December 23, 1943 Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross awarded.

After the war, Günther Brandt practiced as a specialist in internal medicine .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 239.