Karl Astel was a Nazi racial scientist and involved in the Nazi Eugenics program.

He was born on 26 February 1898 in Schweinfurt

Schweinfurt

Schweinfurt is a city in the Lower Franconia region of Bavaria in Germany on the right bank of the canalized Main, which is here spanned by several bridges, 27 km northeast of Würzburg.- History :...

. After finishing the Gymnasium he fought in World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 in 1917 and 1918. Astel took part at the Kapp Putsch

Kapp Putsch

The Kapp Putsch — or more accurately the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch — was a 1920 coup attempt during the German Revolution of 1918–1919 aimed at overthrowing the Weimar Republic...

 and also the Beer Hall Putsch

Beer Hall Putsch

The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed attempt at revolution that occurred between the evening of 8 November and the early afternoon of 9 November 1923, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, Generalquartiermeister Erich Ludendorff, and other heads of the Kampfbund unsuccessfully tried to seize power...

, as a member of the Freikorps Oberland

Freikorps Oberland

The Freikorps Oberland was a free corps in the early years of the Weimar Republic, fighting against Communist and Polish insurgents...

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Astel studied medicine in Würzburg

Würzburg

Würzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located at the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Lower Franconia. The regional dialect is Franconian....

 and earned his PhD around 1930. Besides he was educated and then approved as a sports teacher in March 1926. Astel was employed by the Technical University Munich as a sports physicianly advisor.

He was also involved in the anti-tobacco movement

Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany

After German doctors became the first to identify the link between smoking and lung cancer, Nazi Germany initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement and led the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history...

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Timeline

• ???? Freikorps
  Freikorps
  Freikorps are German volunteer military or paramilitary units. The term was originally applied to voluntary armies formed in German lands from the middle of the 18th century onwards. Between World War I and World War II the term was also used for the paramilitary organizations that arose during...
  
   member
• 1930 Joined the Nazi Party
• 1930s
  • German Society for Race Hygenie
  • SA
    Sturmabteilung
    The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
    
     Reich Leadership Academy
  • Worked in the RuSHA
    RuSHA
    The Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt-SS , , was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial 'purity' of the SS" within Nazi Germany....
    
     (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

See also

• :de:Karl Astel German Wikipedia entry
• Nazi Eugenics
  Nazi eugenics
  Nazi eugenics were Nazi Germany's racially-based social policies that placed the improvement of the Aryan race through eugenics at the center of their concerns...
  
  
• Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
  Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
  After German doctors became the first to identify the link between smoking and lung cancer, Nazi Germany initiated a strong anti-tobacco movement and led the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history...