Heinrich Gottong

Heinrich Gottong (born February 4, 1912 in Werder (Havel) , † 1944 in Hungary ) was a German anthropologist and "racial researcher".

After studying at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , Gottong received his doctorate in anthropology from the National Socialists Hans FK Günther and Bruno K. Schultz in 1939 with a “ racial ” work on the Sorbian rural population around Hoyerswerda . From March 1940 he was Jewish advisor in the Department of Population and Welfare under Fritz Arlt at the government of the General Government in Krakow , from October 1940 assistant in the Racial and Ethnic Research Section at the Institute for German Ostarbeit with Anton Plügel . There he did important preparatory work for the extermination of the Jews. He was drafted into military service in 1942 and is missing in Hungary.

Fonts

• The population of Hoyerswerda-Land. A contribution to the knowledge of the Prussian Upper Lusatia (history, way of life, races) , Triltsch, Würzburg 1939 (= dissertation, Berlin 1939)
• Die Juden im Generalgouvernement , in: Das Vorfeld 1 (1940), no. 3, pp. 14-20
• with Anton Plügel : Significance and tasks of the Race and Ethnicity Research Section , Krakow 1941
• Markowa-a Polish village? , The General Government. 2nd year 1942, issue 1
• Herder Institute for Historical Research on Central Europe (ed.): Circular letter from Gottong, the adviser for Jewish affairs

literature

• Christian Harten u. a .: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich , Akademie Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-05-004094-7 , p. 142
• The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (VEJ), Vol. 4, Poland September 1939 - July 1941. Arranged by Klaus-Peter Friedrich. 2011, p. 266 ISBN 978-3-486-58525-4