Ernst Rüdin (1874-1952)
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American Rockefeller money helped fund the German race-science institute whose director co-wrote the Nazi sterilization law.
Who they are
Ernst Rudin (1874-1952), a director at the Rockefeller-funded Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry in Munich.
What they do
The engine treats him as a second documented money-bridge from American philanthropy into German racial science.
How it works
Rockefeller endowed his institute with a $250,000 grant in 1926 (it opened in 1928), Rudin ran its demographic-genealogical department, and he co-authored the German regime's 1933 compulsory-sterilization law; Rockefeller funding to these institutes ended in 1939.
Why it matters
It matters as a concrete example — alongside Eugen Fischer's Berlin institute — of US capital flowing into the science that underpinned Nazi eugenics.
The engine's record — word for word
[Report #124] Director of the demographic-genealogical department at the Rockefeller-funded Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry, Munich (RF endowed it with a $250,000 grant in 1926; opened 1928), and co-author of the German regime's 1933 compulsory-sterilization law. A second documented Rockefeller-> German-racial-science capital bridge alongside eugen_fischer (KWI Anthropology, Berlin). RF funding to both institutes terminated 1939. [Report #176] Co-author of the 1933 sterilization-law commentary (with Gutt/Ruttke); Rockefeller-funded psychiatric genetics; eugenics_transatlantic_loop.
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