Peter Kramp

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Peter Kramp (born July 23, 1911 in Barmen ; † February 10, 1975 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German anthropologist and university professor .

Life

Kramp completed his school career in Barmen in 1931 with the Abitur. He then studied botany and zoology at the University of Halle and after moving to the University of Munich , majoring in anthropology and minor subjects in zoology and physiology. In November 1937 he was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . He then received a short-term scholarship from the DFG and finally assistant to his teacher Theodor Mollison in Munich, where he completed his habilitation in 1942 .

From 1943 he was an assistant at the anthropological department of the "Institute for Hereditary Health and Racial Care" at the University of Frankfurt under Heinrich Wilhelm Kranz . From 1944 he worked as a private lecturer in Frankfurt . After the end of the Second World War , he was director of the Anthropological Institute at the University of Frankfurt and temporarily the Institute for Hereditary Science. In 1950 he was appointed extraordinary, 1958 extraordinary and 1963 full professor for anthropology at the University of Frankfurt. Due to illness, he retired in February 1973.

Fonts

  • The bajuvarian row grave skeletons from the Riegeranger in Munich-Giesing: A contribution to the problem of d. Southern German brachycephaly , Swiss beard , Stuttgart 1939. From: Anthropol. Indicator. Vol. 15, volume 2. (also Munich, natural science diss.)
  • The genetic proof of ancestry , JF Lehmanns Verl., 1939–1942. From: The Biologist. Vol. 8, H. 12. Vol. 9, H. 9/10. 11th year 11, H. 3/4. (also Munich, Naturwiss. F., Hab.-Schr.)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Fleischhacker : In memoriam Peter Kramp 1911-1975 . In Anthropologischer Anzeiger , Vol. 35-36, 1975, pp. 221f.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 334f.
  3. ↑ Who is who? : Das Deutsche who's who , Volume 17, Schmidt-Römhild, 1971, p. 578
personal data
SURNAME Kramp, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1975
Place of death Frankfurt am Main