Schladen, Wolfenbüttel, Duchy of Brunswick, Germany
Died
4 September 1931
Berlin, Germany
Alma mater
Greifswald Leipzig Kiel Berlin
Occupation(s)
Physician Social hygienist Eugenicist Journalist-author Member of Parliament
Political party
SPD
Spouse
Charlotte Hartz (1881–1945)
Children
Gertrud Martin (1904–1990) Peter (1907–1943)
Parents
Robert Grotjahn (1841–1908) (father)
Emma Frey (1845–1875) (mother)
Alfred Grotjahn (25 November 1869 – 4 September 1931) was a German physician, social hygienist, eugenicist, journalist-author and, for three years between 1921 and 1924, a Member of the Reichstag (national parliament) in the recently launched German republic.
Grotjahn became celebrated as a pioneer, and among admirers an inventor, of the discipline of "social hygiene" which, in Germany, was not merely an ephemeral euphemism for the sociological study of sexually transmitted diseases, but embraced a series of topics along the interface between sociology and medicine.
When at first he publicised his ideas at the start of the 20th century he encountered a barrage of opposition from the powerful and increasingly politicised eugenics lobby, but during the next three decades some of his own thinking came closer to that of the eugenicists: by the time he died he was sometimes identified as part of the eugenics movement.
After he died, many of his ideas remained mainstream in Germany and among some medical scholars in North America through the 1930s, but by 1945 they had become discredited across Europe, alongside those of the eugenics movement itself, by their association with the Hitlerite atrocities. Within Germany, despite a few of his ideas turning up as government policy, Grotjahn was in the short term airbrushed out of history during the 1930s on account of his Jewish provenance. His son emigrated to the United States in 1937, ending up in Los Angeles, where he acquired notability on his own account as a psychoanalyst.[1][2][3][4][5]
^Bruno Harms [in German] (1966). "Grotjahn, Alfred: Sozialhygieniker, * 25.11.1869 Schladen am Harz, † 4.9.1931 Berlin". Neue Deutsche Biographie. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (HiKo), München. p. 169. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
^Milton Rabson (September 1936). "Alfred Grotjahn, Founder of Social Hygiene". Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 12 (2): 43–58. PMC 1965908. PMID 19311980.
^Myron Kantorovich (March 1940). "Alfred Grotjahn as a eugenist". Journal of Heredity. Oxford University Press (OUP) & American Genetic Association. pp. 155–159. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
^Paul Weindling (1987). "Medical Practice in Imperial Berlin: The Casebook of Alfred Grotjahn". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 61 / 3 (3). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD & JSTOR: 391–410. JSTOR 44442099. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
^Major Greenwood, D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics in the University of London. Note that "Major" was the Christian / given name of Major Greenwood. Use of the word "Major" was not, in his case, anything to do with a military rank. (26 January 1946). "Social Medicine". The British Medical Journal. 1 / 4438 (4438): 117–119. JSTOR 20365308. Retrieved 17 July 2022.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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