Wolfgang Abel
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Wolfgang Abel | |
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| Born | 13 May 1905 |
| Died | 1 November 1997 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Occupation | Anthropologist |
| Parent | Othenio Abel |
Wolfgang Abel (13 May 1905 – 1 November 1997) was an
.Early life and career
From 1931 Wolfgang Abel was engaged at the
University of Berlin
.
Wolfgang Abel delivered in 1938 a speech at the "Congres International des Sciences Anthropologiques et Ethnologiques, Deuxieme Session, Copenhague 1938". The topic was: Die Rasse der rumänischen Zigeuner.[citation needed] Meaning, On the Race of the Romanian Gypsies.
In the same year Abel was in addition to his work at the KWI lecturer in anthropology, as well as Deputy Head of the Department of
General Plan East, Abel worked out a plan for a "progressive elimination" of the "Russian race' with which he wanted all "Russian Nordic types "Germanized" and the rest deported to Siberia
, in May 1942.
In addition to his teachings, Wolfgang Abel assumed the management of the Institute Awards of the German High School for Politics in 1943. In 1945, Abel was dismissed from the
University of Berlin
. From 1945 to 1947 he was interned by the Americans. He then lived as a portrait painter in Austria.
Later life and death
After World War II, he lived in Austria until his death in 1997.
References
- ^ "What became of Black, Asian and Arab people in Nazi-occupied Europe during the second world war?". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
Literature
- Ernst Klee ("Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich") describes Wolfgang Abel as an anthropologist who joined the NSDAP in 1933 and in 1935 joined the SS, was attached to SS-RuSHA and was Leiter des Institutes für Rassenbiologie der Deutschen Hochschule für Politik. Klee gives him a birthdate of 13.05.1905.
- ISBN 978-0-415-93295-0
- Proctor, Robert (2006). Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-74578-0
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