German Federation for Population Betterment and Heredity merges with German Society for Racial Hygiene

1931. The Deutscher Bund für Volksaufartung und Erbkunde (German Federation for Population Betterment and Heredity) merges with the Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene (German Society for Racial Hygiene). The German Society for Racial Hygiene had 1300 members by 1933 and sought to establish eugenics as an area for scientific exploration. With the rise of the National Socialists to Germany's government, this society was able to directly influence federal policy.

More information is available at the Wikipedia.

-Erna Kurbegovic

  • Bashford, A. & Levine, P. (Eds.). (2010). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

German Federation for Population Betterment and Heredity merges with German Society for Racial Hygiene

1931. The Deutscher Bund für Volksaufartung und Erbkunde (German Federation for Population Betterment and Heredity) merges with the Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene (German Society for Racial Hygiene). The German Society for Racial Hygiene had 1300 members by 1933 and sought to establish eugenics as an area for scientific exploration. With the rise of the National Socialists to Germany's government, this society was able to directly influence federal policy.

More information is available at the Wikipedia.

-Erna Kurbegovic

  • Bashford, A. & Levine, P. (Eds.). (2010). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.