Hans F. K. Günther, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hans F. K. Günther

German Eugenicist

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1891

Place of Birth: Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 25-Sep-1968

Profession: writer, physician, university teacher, anthropologist, racial theorist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Hans Friedrich Karl Günther (16 February 1891 – 25 September 1968) was a German writer and eugenicist in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
He was also known as Race Günther (Rassengünther) or Race Pope (Rassenpapst).
He is considered to have been a major influence on Nazi racialist thought.
He taught at the universities of Jena, Berlin, and Freiburg, writing numerous books and essays on racial theory.
Günther's Short Ethnology of the German People (1929) was a popular exposition of Nordicism.
In May 1930, he was appointed to a new chair of racial theory at Jena.
He joined the Nazi Party in 1932 as the only leading racial theorist to join the party before it assumed power in 1933.