Gustav Kraitschek

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Gustav Kraitschek (* 1870 in Vienna ; † March 15, 1927 ibid) was an Austrian anthropologist and secondary school professor of geography and history.

Life

Kraitschek received his doctorate in geography and history in 1893 and then worked as a teacher of these subjects at the Federal Realschule in Vienna.

Kraitschek was next to Otto Reche co-founder of the funded by the Austrian Social and Education Ministry "Viennese Society for Racial Hygiene," in the name of German nationalist was established clubs in the autumn of 1924 and its opening session on 18 March 1925 at the Banquet Hall of the University of Vienna took place. The Vienna Society, which practiced anti -Semitic racial hygiene on a supposedly scientific basis, had its seat in the Institute for Anthropology of the University of Vienna, and its events took place there in the lecture halls and in the auditorium maximum . After the annexation of Austria in 1938, the company was renamed "Society for Race Care Vienna, local society of the German Society for Race Care".

From 1906 to 1926 Kraitschek was a committee member of the Anthropological Society in Vienna , where he dealt with the value complexes of race, blood and soil and an alleged Jewish world conspiracy in the 1920s and 1930s .

Publications

  • "The alpine type" (1901). In: Centralblatt für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte 6. pp. 322–330.
  • "Contributions to the Question of Racial Mixture in Central Europe" (1914). In: Communications from the Anthropological Society in Vienna 44. pp. 1–16.
  • "The Nordic Race" (1923). In: Communications from the Anthropological Society in Vienna 53. pp. 190–196.
  • Racial studies with special consideration of the German people, especially the Eastern Alpine countries (1923). Urgeschichtliche Volksbücher, Volume 1. Ed. Oswald Menghin . Vienna: Burgverlag Ferdinand Zöllner.

literature

  • Fangerau, Heiner (2000). The standard work on human heredity and racial hygiene by Erwin Baur, Eugen Fischer and Fritz Lenz as reflected in contemporary review literature 1921–1941 . Inaugural dissertation. Ruhr University Bochum, online edition (PDF file; 916 kB) .
  • Fuchs, Brigitte (2003). “Race”, “People”, Gender. Anthropological Discourses in Austria 1850–1960 . Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
  • Neugebauer, Wolfgang (2005). "The Vienna Society for Race Care and the University of Vienna". In: Gabriel, Heinz Eberhard & Neugebauer, Wolfgang (eds.). Pioneer of Annihilation? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938 . On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna 3. Vienna: Böhlau. Pp. 53-64.
  • Teschler-Nicola, Maria (2005). "Aspects of hereditary biology and the development of the racial expert opinion in Austria until 1938". In: Gabriel, Heinz Eberhard & Neugebauer, Wolfgang (eds.). Pioneer of Annihilation? Eugenics, racial hygiene and euthanasia in the Austrian discussion before 1938 . On the history of Nazi euthanasia in Vienna 3. Vienna: Böhlau. Pp. 99-138.
  • Pusman, Karl (2008). The “Human Sciences” on Vienna soil (1870–1959). The anthropological society in Vienna and the anthropological disciplines in the focus of the history of science, science and displacement politics . Vienna: Lit.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fuchs, Brigitte (2003). Race, people, gender. Anthropological Discourses in Austria 1850–1960 . Frankfurt am Main: Campus, p. 270.
  2. ↑ Pusman, Karl (2008). The “Human Sciences” on Vienna soil (1870–1959). The anthropological society in Vienna and the anthropological disciplines in the focus of the history of science, science and displacement politics. Vienna: Lit-Verlag, p. 126 f.
personal data
SURNAME Kraitschek, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian anthropologist and secondary school professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1927
Place of death Vienna