Background
He was born on 26 February 1898 in Schweinfurt.
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Karl Astel
Edit Profilegeneticist judge theorist university professor
Education
Astel studied medicine in Würzburg and earned his Doctor of Philosophy around 1930. He was educated and then approved as a sports teacher in March 1926.
Career
After finishing the Gymnasium he fought in World War I in 1917 and 1918. 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 Steamship-university ("Steamship-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).
1920s Freikorps member
1930 Joined the Nazi Party
1930s
German Society for Race Hygenie
Société Anonyme Reich Leadership Academy
Worked in the RuSHA (Race and Resettlement Office of the Steamship)
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.
Membership
Schutzstaffel]
Astel took part at the Kapp Putsch and also the Beer Hall Putsch, as a member of the Freikorps Oberland.
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Nationality
Germany -
Political Party
Nazi party