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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 Nazi Eugenics program.〔 〕〔 〕〔 〕 He was born on 26 February 1898 in Schweinfurt.〔Uwe Hossfeld: Geschichte der biologischen Anthropologie in Deutschland, Page 231f〕 After finishing the Gymnasium he fought in World War I in 1917 and 1918.〔Uwe Hossfeld: Geschichte der biologischen Anthropologie in Deutschland〕 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). ==Timeline== *1920s Freikorps member〔 *1930 Joined the Nazi Party〔 *1930s * * German Society for Race Hygenie〔 * * SA Reich Leadership Academy〔 * * Worked in the RuSHA (Race and Resettlement Office of the SS) * * Compiled a 'databank' on people to help with 'excluding'〔 *1933 Thuringia Regional Bureau Race Affairs, Weimar〔 *1934 Professor & Director, University Institute for Breeding Theory and Heredity Research〔 in Jena〔 *1936 director Health and Welfare Issues, Thuringia〔 *1934–1937 'in charge' of the Hereditary Health Supreme Court〔 *1939 Rector, University of Jena〔 *1945 Committed suicide in Jena 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Karl Astel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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