Wolfgang Knorr

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Detlef Walter Wolfgang Knorr (born May 30, 1911 in Wolkenburg ; † July 4, 1940 in France) was a German physician and racial theorist .

Life

As the son of the doctor Alfred Knorr he grew up in the Erzgebirge and studied at the University of Leipzig Medical and Race Studies , where he in 1936 with a thesis on "The children rich in Leipzig" to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In the same year he got a position at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden , where he worked in the genetics and racial studies department and did special research on National Socialist racial science and racial politics . In addition, he held a teaching position for race grooming at the University of Leipzig. In 1939 he was at the University of Rostock with the work "genetic biology Comparative studies on three antisocial extended families" to Dr. med. PhD.

At the age of 21 he joined the NSDAP in 1932 and quickly made a career here. Initially, he was a volunteer NSDAP group speaker and from 1933 as a gau speaker. After a time as a deputy, he was promoted to Gauamtsleiter in the race policy office of the NSDAP in Saxony on February 1, 1936 . In 1939 he became head of the Reich Main Office for “Practical Population Policy”. Among other things, Knorr demanded a "law against the prevalence of subhumanity ", which should make it possible to forcibly sterilize all those who were declared "unfit for community" by the National Socialists.

In 1938 he became an SA standard leader . In early July 1940, at the age of 29, he died as a resident in France of an overdose of morphine, presumably as a result of suicide.

Publications

  • Dissertation to Dr. phil .; The large children in Leipzig ; Journal of Geopolitics; Beih. 13; Heidelberg, Berlin; Vowinckel 1936, DNB
  • Dissertation to Dr. med .; Comparative hereditary studies on three asocial extended families ; Berlin, de Gruyter 1939; DNB
  • The Cross of Honor of the German Mother ; from: people and race; H. 3/1939; Munich, Lehmann, 1939; DNB
  • Selection of large families ; in: goal and path; 8/1938, p. 561; and in: Political Education; H. 1/1938, pp. 1-7.
  • Practical Racial Policy ; in: people and race; H. 3/1939, pp. 1-7.

literature

  • Obituary, in: Mitteilungen des Roland 38 (1941).
  • Hans-Christian Harten / Uwe Neirich / Matthias Schwerendt: Rassenhygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich , 2006, p. 316 , p. 414
  • Wolfgang Knorr , in: Ernst Klee Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945? , Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 2003; 2nd edition 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0
  • Steinkamp, ​​Peter: "Pervitin and cold duck, Russian schnapps and morphine. On the problem of deviance in the Wehrmacht: Alcohol and intoxicant abuse in the troops", Freiburg (Phil. Diss. Univ. Freiburg) 2008, PDF .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steinkamp, ​​Peter: "Pervitin and cold duck, Russian schnapps and morphine. On the problem of deviance in the Wehrmacht: Alcohol and intoxicant abuse among the troops". Freiburg (Phil. Diss. Univ. Freiburg) 2008, p. 357.
personal data
SURNAME Knorr, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knorr, Detlef Walter Wolfgang (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and racial theorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolkenburg
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1940
Place of death France