Willibald Hentschel
Willibald Hentschel ( born November 7, 1858 in Łódź, Poland, † February 2nd 1947 in Leoni am Starnberger See, Germany ) was a scientist, author and inspirer of utopian and fantastic breed breeding plans. He was an outstanding agitator of the Nationalist movement in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic.
Life and work
Hentschel's parents had moved from stone castle in Bohemia to Lodz, where his father ran a textile factory. With his parents he moved to Dresden in 1874, where in 1875 his Abitur and started to study chemistry and physics.
In 1877 he moved to Jena, where he studied biology with Ernst Haeckel. In November 1879 he was awarded his doctorate on the topic about the current state of causal explanation in the inheritance of publication. In the minor he was tested in chemistry and physics of Ernst Abbe.
First Hentschel remained as an assistant to Haeckel, but then went back to Dresden 's Technical University. There he was involved with Rudolf Schmitt on the development of a new process for the production of salicylic acid and became acquainted with Wilhelm Ostwald. From the resulting income from his work, he bought two estates in Silesia.
At age 23 he married in Dresden Hellen Carpenter, the daughter of German - English parents. They had five daughters together, leaving behind 13 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren in 1947.
1885-1886 Hentschel took part in an expedition to Zanzibar and East Africa. After his return, he went to the University of Jena and came as a chemist by patents and inventions in the field of indigo production to a considerable fortune. His next stop was Heidelberg, only the university, then the local industrial research.
In Baden he made acquaintance with anti-Semitic circles. In 1890 he was a board member of the German Socialist Party.
His anti-Semitic agitation came in Baden but with resistance, which is why he retired to his manor Seiffersdorf in Silesia. He dealt with fertilizer research and wrote the books Varuna (1901) and Mittgart (1904 ), in which he advocated projects an Aryan race breeding, which were rejected by the leaders of the Society for Racial Hygiene, particularly by Alfred Ploetz, as unrealistic. His friend Theodor Fritsch held on several occasions and for a long time in Seiffersdorf. In its publisher also Varuna appeared. Publisher later books was Erich Matthes in Leipzig. Hentschel authored numerous articles in the magazine published by Fritsch and hammer in the German Social - sheets, where he propagated his people breeding plans and explained.
According to the ideas Hentschel's supposed to be a "people- Garden " from a mainly agricultural production facility, a " high place of racial breeding " with the aim of the emergence of a " new nationalist elite ". Taking recourse to the alleged marriage of the old Germans (who " killed the Strong and Efficient nine of his weaker opponents, and the women for, took the " opinion Hentschel ) should be in a Mittgart settlement monogamy on time between about one thousand men and one hundred dominate men. The practical implementation of such plans failed from the fact that for such settlements were not enough women.
During and after the First World War Hentschel share assets were worthless. In Niegard, Wester Wanna circle, he built up a new life and called from there in 1923 to form the Federal ' Artam ' on. That He inspired the founding of the youth movement of the movement Artamanen who joined Heinrich Himmler and Walther Darré.
His party membership in the NSDAP ( Mitgl no. 144 649 ) from 1 August 1929, he had given up loud message of the NSDAP Gau Osthannover in December 1932.
Hentschel had many ardent supporters. His teacher Ernst Haeckel, for example, shared his views on eugenics. Other admirers were Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler, the diamond couple Hentschel - despite party outlet - 1941 handwritten congratulated. Hentschel's legacy of Nazism is next to the nationalist ideology, as it eventually also expressed in the Lebensborn, especially in the enforcement of which he initiated, healing greeting.