Hans F. K. Günther

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German Eugenicist (1891-1968)

Germany AcademicsLived 1891 to 1968 · aged 77

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Hans Friedrich Karl Günther, popularly known as Hans F. K. Günther, was a German writer, advocate of scientific racism and eugenicist in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany. He was also known as "Rassengünther" or "Rassenpapst". He is considered to have been a major influence on Nazi racialist thought.

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Pages 34-5 of Short Ethnology of the German People. On the left page (right of two) there is an image of Joseph Stalin as representative of the "Near Eastern" race (vorderasiatisch) while on the right page (bottom two of four) there are two images of Jews from Germany and Austria respectively, described as "mainly Near Eastern" (vorwiegend vorderasiatisch).

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1941Goethe Medal for Art and Science

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