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Eugen Fischer

1874 - 1967

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Eugen Fischer (5 June 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 also served as rector of the Frederick William University of Berlin. Fischer's ideas informed the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 which served to justify the Nazi Party's belief in German racial superiority to other "races", and especially the Jews. Adolf Hitler read Fischer's work while he was imprisoned in 1923 and he used Fischer's eugenic notions to support his vision of a pure Aryan society in his manifesto Mein Kampf (My Struggle). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eugen Fischer is the 543rd most popular biologist (down from 370th in 2019), the 3,401st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,821st in 2019) and the 104th most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Eugen Fischer ranks 543 out of 1,097. Before him are Camille Guérin, Edward Daniel Clarke, Rupert Sheldrake, Kliment Timiryazev, Robert Fortune, and Johann Jakob Bernhardi. After him are Johann Friedrich Klotzsch, João de Loureiro, Günther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter, Katsuko Saruhashi, and Rolf Singer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1874, Eugen Fischer ranks 123. Before him are Frank Elmore Ross, William Foulke, Ernest Duchesne, Dimitrios Golemis, Alfred Tysoe, and Ioannis Mitropoulos. After him are Amy Lowell, Khalid bin Barghash of Zanzibar, Leopoldo Lugones, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Georges Lefebvre, and Ludwig Diels. Among people deceased in 1967, Eugen Fischer ranks 142. Before him are Radhabinod Pal, Li Lisan, Nils von Kantzow, Gideon Ståhlberg, Oskar Fischinger, and Tudor Arghezi. After him are Charles Bickford, Otto Erich Deutsch, Mischa Elman, Geki, Eddie Tolan, and Holland Smith.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Eugen Fischer ranks 3,403 out of 7,253. Before him are Vincent Lübeck (1654), Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774), Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia (1336), Christian Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1683), Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661), and Henry E. Steinway (1797). After him are Stanislaus Kobierski (1910), Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), Jürgen Croy (1946), Duchess Marie Louise of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1803), Princess Sophie of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1778), and Julius Reubke (1834).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Eugen Fischer ranks 104. Before him are Johann Jakob Heckel (1790), Jacques Loeb (1859), Eduard August von Regel (1815), Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850), Ernst Schäfer (1910), and Johann Jakob Bernhardi (1774). After him are Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805), Rolf Singer (1906), Emilie Snethlage (1868), Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), Ludwig Diels (1874), and Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780).

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