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Ernst Rüdin

Swiss psychiatrist (1874-1952)

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Lived 1874–1952, aged 78Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwitzerlandAcademicsAcademic
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  • Era
    1874–1952
    Aged 78
  • Awards
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Updated 2026-06-23

Ernst Rüdin was a Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist and Nazi, rising to prominence under Emil Kraepelin and assuming the directorship at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research in Munich. While he has been credited as a pioneer of psychiatric inheritance studies, he also argued for, designed, justified and funded the mass sterilization and clinical killing of adults and children.

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