The Loyal Genetic Doctor, Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, and the Institut für Erbbiologie und Rassenhygiene
Origins, Controversy, and Racial Political Practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9645796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sheila Faith Weiss (Clarkson University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 631-668 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938912000635 |
| OpenAlex | W2070385564 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
Reporting on the results of the 1935 World Population Conference hosted in the capital of the “new Germany” for members of the nation's medical community, the renowned racial anthropologist and director of the prestigious Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Anthropologie, menschliche Erblehre und Eugenik (KWIA), Eugen Fischer (1874–1967), commented on the significance of a new type of physician, one whose duties were intricately linked with the goals of the Nazi state. Just as the house doctor of old was able to prevent and recognize when an individual patient was in imminent medical danger by having carefully watched over his charge—intervening when necessary—so, too, must the Erbarzt (genetic doctor) do the same for the entire Volk by overseeing, and, if need be, managing, the hereditary lineages of all its composite members. This not merely entailed evaluating the trajectory of genetic diseases in different segments of the German population, but it also demanded something equally important. “As getreuer Ekkehardt [loyal Ekkehardt] with his hand on the pulse of the life of his Volk,” Fischer commented, the genetic doctor had to supervise its racial purity. This was to ensure that its racial essence—the presupposition of all cultural and mental attributes of the Volk—was inherited unchanged
Ancient history · Capital (architecture · Epistemology · German · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Population · Presupposition · Sociology · State (computer science · Demography · European history and politics · History · Law · Medical History and Research · Medicine and Dermatology Studies History · Philosophy · Religious studies
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927–1945
The structure of scientific revolutions
Rassenhygiene, Nationalsozialismus, Euthanasie
The Nazi Symbiosis
Studying the Jew
Otmar von Verschuer and the "Scientific" Legitimization of Nazi Anti-Jewish Policy
Von der Vaterschaftsbestimmung zum Rassegutachten. Der erbbiologische Ähnlichkeitsvergleich als ‚österreichisch‐deutsches Projekt’︁ 1926‐1945
After the Fall
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |