Prussian State Health Council

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The Prussian State Health Council (Pr.LGR) was founded by the Prussian State Ministry on April 30, 1921 , following the example of the Reich Health Council .

"Eugenics in the service of the people's welfare"

On July 2, 1932, a committee of the Prussian State Health Council met on the subject of "Eugenics in the service of the people's welfare". Hermann Muckermann presented a draft for an eugenics law. Heinrich Schopohl, President of the Prussian State Health Council, set the course for this. "Guiding principles of eugenics" were adopted and passed as a draft law on July 30, 1932 by a commission.

24 members of the State Health Council who belonged to the committee were involved in the meeting, including Fischer, Muckermann, Wilhelm vom Drigalski, Richard Goldschmidt, Max Hirsch, and others. a. In addition, 36 experts: Otmar von Verschuer, Lothar Loeffler, Erwin Baur, Agnes Bluhm u. a.

During the committee work, the main line of conflict was the issue of the voluntary nature of sterilization. The later Reich Health Leader Leonardo Conti (NSDAP) spoke out against the voluntariness. At the same time, Conti claimed authorship and leadership role in the hereditary health issue for the NSDAP, to which Eugen Fischer replied: "It [the NSDAP] has not existed for a long time as our eugenic movement."

Members (selection)

literature

  • Thomas Saretzki: The Reich Health Council and the Prussian State Health Council in the Weimar Republic. Berlin 1999

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Müller, Sterilization, pp. 95–99, Weingart / Kroll / Bayertz, Rasse, 294–298; Weindling, Health, pp. 455-456; Schwartz, Eugenik, pp. 318-322; Richter, Katholizismus, pp. 294–305; Saretzki, Reichsgesundheitsrat, pp. 336-344.