State Office for Racial Affairs (Thuringia)
The regional office for racial affairs in Thuringia (see also Thuringia under National Socialism ) was founded on July 15, 1933 in Weimar . It was the first such institution at the state level. The physician and racial theorist Karl Astel was appointed director. Under his leadership, the State Office for Racial Affairs set up a hereditary biological archive in which every third inhabitant of Thuringia was recorded. By 1935, the State Office had already created files on 466,000 people. The State Office for Racial Affairs was also responsible for carrying out training on racial politics , which took place in the State School for Leadership and Politics in Egendorf .
The State Office for Racial Affairs was also responsible for expert work in connection with the determination of hereditary diseases and the justification of compulsory sterilizations . The office was responsible for preparing race-political certificates (see also Aryan proof ) and certificates for marriages (see also National Socialist Racial Hygiene ).
The State Office for Racial Affairs was located in the two houses at Marienstraße 13/15, today part of the Bauhaus University , and as a branch with the "Teaching and Research" department on Kahlaische Straße in Jena.
Publications
- Gerhard Kloos : Instructions for the intelligence test in hereditary health court proceedings : On behalf of the Thuringian State Office for Racial Affairs, Fischer, Jena 1941. 1943 published under the title addition and its evaluation in the second edition. Published three more times under the title Instructions for Intelligence Testing in Psychiatric Diagnostics in 1952, 1958 and 1965.
- Hereditary current of the German people to the traveling exhibition Thuringian Racial System (see google books )
- Gerlinde Sommer: Karl Astel's family table once came from Weimar. In: Thüringische Landeszeitung (TLZ) from July 6, 2013, Weimar
See also
Web links
- Monika Gibas (ed.): Sources on the history of Thuringia. "Aryanization" in Thuringia. Disenfranchisement, expropriation and extermination of the Jewish citizens of Thuringia 1933–1945 (State Center for Political Education Thuringia 2008, pp. 29–30, ISBN 978-3-937967-06-6 )
- Thuringian State Office for Racial Affairs at the Förderverein Buchenwald e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerlinde Sommer in the TLZ 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. pdf accessed on September 13, 2015
