Eugen Fischer
| Eugen Fischer | |
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Eugen Fischer with photographs of indigenous African women, circa 1938.
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| Born |
5 July 1874 Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden |
| Died | 9 July 1967 (aged 93) Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | Nazi Eugenics |
| Political party | Nazi Party |
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 as rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin.
Fischer's ideas informed the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 and served to justify the Nazi Party's attitudes of racial superiority.Adolf Hitler read Fischer's work while imprisoned in 1923 and used his eugenical notions to support the ideal of a pure Aryan society in his manifesto, Mein Kampf (My Struggle).
Fischer was born in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden, in 1874. Fischer studied medicine, folkloristics, history, anatomy, and anthropology in Berlin, Freiburg and Munich. In 1918, he joined the Anatomical Institute in Freiburg in 1918, part of the University of Freiburg.
In 1927, Fischer became the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics (KWI-A), a role for which he'd been recommended the prior year by Erwin Baur.
In 1933 Fischer signed the .
In 1933, Adolf Hitler appointed him rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin, now Humboldt University. Fischer retired from the university in 1942.
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