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Wilhelm Schallmayer
Wilhelm Schallmayer | |
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| Born | Friedrich Wilhelm Schallmayer 10 February 1857 |
| Died | 4 October 1919 (aged 62) |
| Alma mater | University of Munich |
| Known for | Eugenics |
Friedrich Wilhelm Schallmayer (February 10, 1857 – October 4, 1919) was Germany's first advocate of eugenics who, along with Alfred Ploetz, founded the German eugenics movement.[1][2] Schallmayer made a lasting impact on the eugenics movement.[3]
- ^ Friedlander, Henry (2000). The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0807846759.
Although the German eugenics movement, led until the Weimar years by Alfred Ploetz and Wilhelm Schallmayer. . . .
- ^ Rubenfeld, Sheldon; Benedict, Susan (2014). Human Subjects Research after the Holocaust. Springer. p. 13. ISBN 978-3319057019.
In Germany the first initiatives came from outsider at the margins of the scientific community, including Dr. Alfred Ploetz and Dr. Wilhelm Schallmayer. who attempted to establish the new concept of racial hygiene, the German term for eugenics.
- ^ Allen, Garland (January 5, 2004). "Was Nazi eugenics created in the US?". EMBO Reports. 5 (5). EMBO Press: 451–452. doi:10.1038/sj.embor.7400158. PMC 1299061.
Wilhelm Schallmeyer, one of the early German eugenicists who left a lasting imprint on the movement.
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