Wolfgang Lehmann (anthropologist)

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Wolfgang Lehmann (born August 31, 1905 in Halle (Saale) ; † January 29, 1980 in Mönkeberg ) was a German anthropologist , physician and university professor.

Life

Lehmann finished his school career in 1925 with the Abitur . He then completed a natural science-anthropological degree at the universities of Königsberg , Vienna and Halle and finally took part in a research trip to the Sunda Islands in 1927 under the leadership of Bernhard Rensch . He then studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1933. med.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , Lehmann became a member of the NSDAP in May 1933 . Furthermore, he subsequently also joined the NS teachers' association (NSLB) and NS doctors association (NSDÄB). From 1933 Lehmann was Otmar von Verschuer's assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin-Dahlem . There he carried out “genetic examinations in rachitic twins” and “twin observations on the genetic pathology of polydactyly ” within the framework of twin research . In 1935 Lehmann moved to the Medical Clinic of the University of Breslau , where he became Kurt Gutzeit's assistant . There he completed a specialist training as an internist . In Breslau he carried out examinations on twins with Graves' disease . He completed his habilitation in 1938 with the work "Twin and Family Examinations for Hereditary Pathology of Hyperthyroidism ". From 1939 Lehmann worked as a lecturer in Breslau. During the Second World War , Lehmann did military service in the Wehrmacht from 1941 . From 1942 to 1945 he was an associate professor at the University of Strasbourg and headed the Institute for Racial Biology there. In this function he carried out "racial studies in Alsace ".

After the end of the war

In the post-war period Lehmann made his living as a general practitioner in Schleswig-Holstein . At the University of Kiel , he resumed his academic work as a lecturer in 1948. From 1950 he worked for the German Society for Anthropology as an expert on paternity reports. From 1956 until his retirement in 1970 he was an associate professor for human genetics in Kiel and also headed the institute for human genetics there. Lehmann devoted himself to researching Willebrand-Jürgens syndrome on the Åland Islands and later examined Sami living north of the Arctic Circle as part of the Men in Arctic program .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Harald Lehmann: A life for human genetics: Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Lehmann (1905–1980): Curriculum vitae: for the 100th birthday in 2005 , Pro Business, 2007.
  • Hans-Walter Schmuhl : Crossing borders. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945. Series: History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism, 9. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-799-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl: Crossing borders. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945. History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism, Volume 9. Wallstein, Göttingen 2005, p. 214
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 363
  3. ↑ Hans-Walter Schmuhl (Ed.): Race research at Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes before and after 1933. Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, p. 217
  4. ^ A b c Society for Physical Anthropology, German Society for Race Research: Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Volumes 39-40, E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung (E. Nägele), 1981, pp. 75f
  5. ↑ Uwe Hoßfeld: History of biological anthropology in Germany. From the beginning until the post-war period. Steiner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08563-7 , p. 214
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician, racial hygienist, human geneticist, university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1980
Place of death Mönkeberg