Dr. Gunnar Dahlberg was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 physician

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

, eugenist and geneticist.

From 1922-1924 he was the assistant of Herman Lundborg at Statens institut för rasbiologi

Statens institut för rasbiologi

Statens institut för rasbiologi was a Swedish governmental research institute founded in 1922 with the stated purpose of studying eugenics and human genetics. It was located in Uppsala and as a governmental agency, it was the world’s first of its kind...

. In 1935, when Lundborg retired, Dahlberg succeeded him as the head of the institute.

In September 1939, he was one of the signatories of the eugenics manifesto

Eugenics manifesto

Eugenics manifesto was the name given to an article supporting eugenics. This manifesto was published in the journal Nature in 1939. This manifesto, dated September 1939, supported eugenics. The original title was Social Biology and Population Improvement...

. In the 1950s, Gunnar Dahlberg gave his support to the UNESCO Statement on Race.