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Robert Ritter (14 May 1901 – 15 April 1951) was a German racial scientist doctor of psychology and medicine, with a background in child psychiatry and the biology of criminality.
Sep 30, 2022 · Robert Ritter was a German doctor who became Nazi Germany’s leading authority on the racial classification of Roma and Sinti. In English, Roma and Sinti are sometimes referred to collectively as Roma, Romanies, or “Gypsies.”
German physician and child psychiatrist Robert Ritter was appointed to lead a new eugenics research center in June 1936. Ritter and his small staff visited Romani communities and the so-called “Gypsy camps” opened by authorities to segregate Roma and Sinti.
Eugen Max Robert Ritter (* 14. Mai 1901 in Aachen; † 17. April 1951 in Oberursel) war ein deutscher Psychiater und nationalsozialistischer Rassentheoretiker („Zigeunerforscher“), der die Rassenhygienische Forschungsstelle (RHF) leitete und nach 1945 Obermedizinalrat der Stadt Frankfurt am Main war.
Dr. Robert Ritter. A German doctor who was born on the 14 May 1901 and died on the 15 April 1951. Ritter was a racial scientist who became prominent following his appointment as head of the Nazis Racial Hygiene and Demographic Biology Centre in Berlin in 1936.
Professor Robert Ritter, Head of the Racial Hygiene Research Center at the Reich Bureau for Health, Collects Data from Sinti and Roma [“Gypsies”] with the Help of the Police (1938) | German History in Documents and Images. Source.
The research of racial scientist Dr. Robert Ritter and his associates served both as instrument and justification for the Nazi regime to isolate and eventually destroy the German Gypsy population. By studying Gypsies, Ritter, who was a psychiatrist, hoped to determine the links between heredity and criminality.
