Political-anthropological review

The Politisch-Anthropologische Revue was a monthly magazine that appeared regularly from 1902 to 1922. It was published by the doctor Ludwig Woltmann and the publisher Hans KE Buhmann under the title Politisch-Anthropologische Revue. Monthly for the social and spiritual life of the peoples and acted as a mouthpiece for the social anthropology that was establishing itself at this time . In terms of content, the medium was strongly oriented towards social Darwinism ; the focus was on the application of biological development theories to social and political society.

With Woltmann's death in 1907, the journal was taken over by the doctor Friedrich Landmann . After his move to the fruit growing colony of Eden , Otto Schmidt-Gibichenfels became the new editor and led the editorial staff of the magazine until it was discontinued in 1922. Under Schmidt-Gibichenfels the magazine became increasingly anti-Semitic , in the last years of its existence it acted as a propaganda medium for the Deutschvölkischen Schutz- und Trutzbundes .

Selection of people who have published for the Political-Anthropological Review

Ludwig Wilser (1850–1923), doctor, ethnic writer and racial historian
Karl Penka (1847–1912), high school professor
Georges Vacher de Lapouge (1854–1936), lawyer, librarian, racial theorist and eugenicist
Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932), philosopher
August Forel (1848–1931), psychiatrist, neuroscientist, entomologist, philosopher and social reformer
Wilhelm Schallmayer (1857–1919), doctor
Ernst Rüdin (1874–1952), psychiatrist, human geneticist and racial hygienist
Cesare Lombroso (1835–1909), doctor, professor of forensic medicine and psychiatry

literature

Gregor Hufenreute r: Ways out of the "inner crises" of modern culture through "consistent application of natural development theory". The Political-Anthropological Review (1902-1914) . In: Michel Grunewald, Uwe Puschner (ed.): Perceptions of crises in Germany around 1900. - Magazines as forums of the time of upheaval in the Wilhelmine Empire . Peter Lang AG, Bern 2010. ISBN 9783035200072

Individual evidence

↑ Gregor Hufenreuter: Ways out of the "internal crises" of modern culture through "consistent application of natural development theory". The Political-Anthropological Review (1902-1914) . In: Michel Grunewald, Uwe Puschner (Hrsg.): Crisis perceptions in Germany around 1900. Magazines as forums of the time of upheaval in the Wilhelmine Empire . Peter Lang, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-03911-743-7 , pp. 598 .

[1] Gregor Hufenreuter: Ways out of the "internal crises" of modern culture through "consistent application of natural development theory". The Political-Anthropological Review (1902-1914) . In: Michel Grunewald, Uwe Puschner (Hrsg.): Crisis perceptions in Germany around 1900. Magazines as forums of the time of upheaval in the Wilhelmine Empire . Peter Lang, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-03911-743-7 , pp. 598 .