International Federation of Eugenics Organizations

The International Federation of Eugenic Organizations (IFEO) was founded in 1925. Most members of this organization united eugenics with racism with political propaganda for the enhancement of the 'white race'." Charles Davenport founded the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations (IFEO) and was its first president. Charles Davenport was using the information gathered by other workers in the field of bastard studies to construct a ". . . 'World Institute for Miscegenations' and was working on a 'world map' of the 'mixed-race areas,' which he introduced for the first time at a meeting of the IFEO in Munich in 1928." [1][2]

Ernst Rüdin was director of the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie (DFA) or the German Research Institute for Psychiatry (a Kaiser Wilhelm Institute). His expertise was in sterilization, and he wrote in his field of expertise. Rüdin was the second president of the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations (IFEO), by 1933.[3]

Eugen Fischer was a member of the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations (IFEO). Fischer was the "... chairman of the commission founded in 1927 for the research of 'bastardization' and 'miscegenation.' " (See bastard studies)[4]

References

  1. ^ Hans-Walter Schmuhl, "The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927-1945", Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 259, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2003, pp. 115-115
  2. ^ Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics
  3. ^ See also: International Eugenics Congress, especially the 1932 conference
  4. ^ Hans-Walter Schmuhl, "The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, 1927-1945", Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 259, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2003, pp. 115-115

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