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Lennart Reidar Armas Hedman (17 June 1896 Vanaja – 26 October 1961 in Tullinge, Stockholm County, Sweden)[1] was a Finnish educator, eugenist and far-right politician. He had a master's degree in philosophy.[2] He had studied genetics at the University of Helsinki under Harry Federley.[3]
Reidar Hedman was the director of the Perttula Education Institute for the Feeble-Minded, the first Finnish-language developmental disability institution founded by his father Edvin Hedman, in 1927–1944.[4] Hedman specialized in eugenics and racial hygiene and supported a comprehensive forced sterilization program for the mentally handicapped.[5] Hedman believed that human intelligence was the basis of all spiritual life and could not be elevated through education, for example.[6]
- ^ Lennart Reidar Armas Hedman (1896 - 1961) - Genealogy
- ^ Suomalaiset fasistit. Mustan sarastuksen airuet , kirj. Oula Silvennoinen, Marko Tikka ja Aapo Roselius. WSOY 2016 ISBN 978-951-040-132-3
- ^ Kansamme parhaaksi : rotuhygienia Suomessa vuoden 1935 sterilointilakiin asti Mattila, Markku (1999)
- ^ Martti Strangin GeneaNet-sukutietopankki : Edvin Hedman
- ^ Westerlund, Lars (2017). Cirkus Collani : de finländska SS-frivilliga 1941–43 : en sedesskildring baserad på de frivilligas egna berättelser. Books on Demand. p. 290. ISBN 978-951-56896-4-1.
- ^ Rainer Hedman, Yhteiskunta ja vajaaälyiset, Sielunterveysseuran aikakauslehti, N:o 1–2, 1933; Vajaaälyisyys sosiaalisena kysymyksenä, Huoltaja N:o 10, 1931, s.