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Eugen Fischer (5 July 1874 – 9 July 1967) was a German professor of medicine, anthropology, and eugenics, and a member of the Nazi Party. He served as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, and also served as rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin .
Apr 21, 2011 · Eugen Fischer, a German anthropologist and eugenicist, influenced Nazi racial policies and programs. Learn about his life, research, and legacy in this article from Harvard Gazette.
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Eugen Fischer was the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics from 1927 to 1942. He supported Nazi racial policies, taught SS doctors, and judged the paternity and "racial purity" of individuals, including Mischlinge and Gypsies.
Apr 27, 2023 · Eugen Fischer was a eugenicist who conducted medical experiments on Herero and Namaqua people in Namibia during the colonial war. He used his research to promote racial hygiene and to justify policies of forced sterilization and genocide.
In its early years, and during the Nazi era, it was strongly associated with theories of Nazi eugenics and racial hygiene advocated by its leading theorists Fritz Lenz, (first director) Eugen Fischer, and by its second director Otmar von Verschuer.
Eugen Fischer. © Archives of the Max Planck Society. Fischer founds, in 1927, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics in Berlin-Dahlem together with Richard Goldschmidt and Carl Correns, and is its Director until 1942.
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Eugen Fischer was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on 5th June, 1874. A supporter of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) Fischer, along with Edwin Baur and Fritz Lenz, published Human Hereditary Teaching and Racial Hygiene. The book became one of the standard works of German racialism.
