Wolfgang Abel

Wolfgang Abel ( born May 13, 1905 in Vienna, † November 1, 1997 in Mondsee, Upper Austria ) was an Austrian anthropologist and Nazi racial theorists.

Life

Wolfgang Abel, son of paleontologist Othenio Abel, studied from 1925 to 1929 medicine, zoology and painting in Vienna and Freiburg. In 1929 he received his doctorate in Vienna. Since 1931 he worked as an assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics (KWI ). In 1933 he joined the Nazi Party. He was involved in forced sterilization of children from relationships with German women "colored" French colonial soldiers who were conceived during the period of occupation of the Ruhr ( " Rhineland bastards "). In addition he wrote in 1934 in the journal New People an article entitled " bastards on the Rhine". In the same year Abel was in addition to his work at the KWI lecturer in anthropology and Deputy Head of the Department Rassenpflege the German University of policies.

After joining the SS in 1935, he worked as an expert for the Race and Settlement Main Office ( RuSHA ) of the SS and as a senior consultant for the Reichssippenamt. At KWI Wolfgang Abel rose in 1940 as Head of Unit Rassenkunde on. In July 1941 he was appointed associate professor. Previously Assistant to the eugenicist Eugen Fischer, he was from 1943 to 1945, his successor in the chair of racial biology of the University of Berlin. In addition, he worked at that time for the Army High Command ( OKH ).

As part of the General Plan East Abel developed in May 1942 a plan for a " progressive elimination " of the "Russian race", which he wanted to Germanise all " Russian Nordic types " and deport the rest to Siberia.

In addition to his teaching took Wolfgang Abel, 1943, the management of the Institute for Racial Biology of the German University of policies.

1945 Abel was dismissed from the University of Berlin. From 1945 to 1947 he was in immigration detention. After that, he lived as a portrait painter in Austria.