Karl Astel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Astel

German scientist

Date of Birth: 26-Feb-1898

Place of Birth: Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 03-Apr-1945

Profession: judge, politician, university teacher, geneticist, racial theorist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Karl Astel (26 February 1898 – 3 April 1945) was an Alter Kämpfer, rector of the University of Jena, a racial scientist, and also involved in the German Nazi Eugenics program.He was born on 26 February 1898 in Schweinfurt.
After finishing the Gymnasium he fought in World War I in 1917 and 1918.
Astel took part at the Kapp Putsch and also the Beer Hall Putsch, as a member of the Freikorps Oberland. Astel studied medicine in Würzburg and earned his PhD around 1930.
He was educated and then approved as a sports teacher in March 1926.
Astel was employed by the Technical University Munich as a sports advisor.He was also involved in the anti-tobacco movement.
After Karl Astel became rector of the University of Jena in 1939 he tried to form the ideal SS-university ("SS-Muster-Universität").
Astel and his like-minded comrades like Heinz Brücher, Gerhard Heberer, Victor Julius Franz, Johann von Leers and Lothar Stengel-von Rutkowski considered Ernst Haeckel as their forerunner. On 3 April 1945, Karl Astel shot himself in a hospital (that was headed by the Rheumatologist Wolfgang Veil).