Walther Wüst

Walther Wüst ( born May 7, 1901 in Kaiserslautern, † March 21, 1993 in Munich) was a German Indo-Europeanist and one of the most active Nazi science officials.

Life

Wüst studied (among other subjects) in Munich especially Indology, worked particularly on the Vedas and has already made quickly during the Weimar Republic Career: At 22, receiving a doctorate, the dissertation topic was the switch set in the Rigveda, a collection of the oldest gods anthems of the Indo-European and Indian literature. At 25 he became a lecturer and got in 1932, only 31 years old, the title of professor.

Wüst was 1933 member of the NSDAP and was since 1934 working as an undercover agent for the SD.

In 1935 he became a full professor for " Aryan culture and linguistics " and Dean of the Faculty of Arts Munich. 1936 Wüst was inducted into the SS (last rank: Standard Leader ) and 1937 President of the German Research Foundation Ahnenerbe and thus their de facto head under the official curator, Reichsführer- SS Himmler. Beginning in 1939, the roles were reversed: now renamed Himmler as "President " of the " research and teaching community." He was known as " curator " libertine "scientifically responsible," and thus also for the personnel policy.

On October 5, 1936 Wüst held in Detmold give a speech in honor of William Teudt, an esoteric and " German believers " to celebrate the awarding of honorary citizen of the town on these; at the same time opened a " Pflegstätte for German customer ." Himmler had Wüst in the spring of 1939, to transfer the research project "Early diagnosis of cancer ," the 30-year Rascher. Wüst was further involved than 1943 Nazi propaganda in the Arab Hitler should be represented as an eschatological figure of Islam in order to win there to support.

In the organization of the Nazi state serving Sciences Wüst played a leading role. During his tenure as rector of the University of Munich (1941-1945), for the arrest of the Scholl siblings in the local main building, was involved in the libertine personally falls. Already in 1942, he was appointed by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences to the ordinary user in the Philosophy and History class.

1945 Wüst was arrested by the occupation authorities and imprisoned until 1948 in Dachau internment. From the University of Munich, he was released in 1946. In its judgment the main chamber Munich from November 9, 1949 Wüst was classified an offender in the denazification trial and sentenced to three years of forced labor, which he had been served with the internment. Through the process, he also lost the right to free exercise, but was later re- publish on the subject of Indology. Wüst was since 1951 Professor for reuse, but received no more chair at a German university.