Ernst Rüdin
Ernst Rüdin | |
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Rüdin in 1944 | |
| Born | 19 April 1874 St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Died | 22 October 1952 (aged 78) |
| Education | Burghölzli (prison), Zürich |
| Known for | Genetics of schizophrenia; support for mass sterilization and clinical killing of adults and children |
| Political party | Nazi Party (1937–1945) |
| Awards | Goethe medal for art and science; Nazi eagle medal (Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches), |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry, genetics, eugenics |
| Institutions | Moabit (prison), Berlin; University of Munich; University of Basel |
| Patrons | Wilhelm Frick |
| Thesis | Über die klinischen Formen der Gefängnisspsychosen (On the clinical forms of prison psychosis) |
| Doctoral advisor | Eugen Bleuler |
| Other academic advisors | Emil Kraepelin |
Ernst Rüdin (19 April 1874 – 22 October 1952) was a Swiss-born German psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist and Nazi, rising to prominence under Emil Kraepelin and assuming the directorship at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research in Munich. While he has been credited as a pioneer of psychiatric inheritance studies, he also argued for, designed, justified and funded the mass sterilization and clinical killing of adults and children.