41 events with tag "eugenics"
1808
ID: 692
Wilhelm Schallmayer wins Krupp Prize for essay on heredity and selection in Prussia
ID: 692
1887
ID: 1078
August Weismann develops germ-plasm theory at University of Freiburg - influences eugenics
ID: 1078
1893
ID: 1110
Alfred Ploetz publishes The Fitness of Our Race, founding German racial hygiene movement
ID: 1110
1905
ID: 1157
Society for Racial Hygiene founded in Berlin by Alfred Ploetz promoting eugenic policies
ID: 1157
1907
ID: 1167
Indiana passes first state sterilization law; Dr. Harry Clay Sharp advocates: 'We make choice of the best rams for our sheep... how careful then should we be in begetting of children!'
ID: 1167
1908
ID: 1174
Wilhelm Schallmayer wins Krupp Prize for essay on heredity and selection, promoting social Darwinist policies in Prussia
ID: 1174
1910
ID: 1192
Eugenics Record Office established, funded by Mrs. E.H. Harriman with over $500,000; Harry Hamilton Laughlin appointed superintendent
ID: 1192
1911
ID: 1199
Committee to Cut Off Defective Germ-Plasm formed, targeting ten groups including the feebleminded, criminals, and epileptics
ID: 1199
1912
ID: 1208
First International Congress of Eugenics (London) - America dominated the worldwide eugenics movement
ID: 1208
1912
ID: 1209
Walter A. Plecker becomes Virginia's Racial Registrar (serves until 1946)
ID: 1209
1913
ID: 1218
Britain's Mental Deficiency Act passed, allowing institutionalization of 'defectives'
ID: 1218
1915
ID: 1232
Dr. Harry Haiselden case - Chicago doctor publicly euthanizes defective newborns
ID: 1232
1916
ID: 1236
Madison Grant publishes 'The Passing of the Great Race' - influences German thinking: 'The cross between any of the three European races and a Jew is a Jew.'
ID: 1236
1917
ID: 1245
Hollywood film 'The Black Stork' released, starring Dr. Haiselden - 'Kill Defectives, Save the Nation'
ID: 1245
1920
ID: 1298
American eugenics movement provides model for Nazi racial policies; Harry Laughlin's model sterilization law becomes basis for Nazi legislation
ID: 1298
1920
ID: 1299
Rockefeller Foundation funds Kaiser Wilhelm Institute eugenics research in Germany
ID: 1299
1921
ID: 1300
Baur-Fischer-Lenz 'Foundation of Human Heredity and Race Hygiene' published - heavily cited American eugenic research
ID: 1300
1921
ID: 1301
Dr. Lucien Howe's Draft Law requires $14,000 bonds (equivalent to $130,000+ today) from 'unfit' couples
ID: 1301
1923
ID: 1316
Carl Brigham's A Study of American Intelligence concluded 'the intellectual superiority of our Nordic group over Alpine, Mediterranean and Negro groups has been demonstrated.'
ID: 1316
1924
ID: 1322
Immigration Act of 1924 passed, based on Harry Laughlin's 'scientific' data; Italian quota slashed from 42,000 to 4,000 annually
ID: 1322
1924
ID: 1323
Virginia's Racial Integrity Act passed - requires racial registration of all Virginians
ID: 1323
1924
ID: 1324
Hitler imprisoned - studies American eugenic research including Baur-Fischer-Lenz textbook
ID: 1324
1925
ID: 1331
Denmark passes sterilization law
ID: 1331
1926
ID: 1341
Supreme Court Justice Holmes: 'The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes' (Buck v. Bell)
ID: 1341
1930
ID: 1366
Pope Pius XI's encyclical condemns eugenics
ID: 1366
1930
ID: 1385
Virginia raids - Sheriffs conduct systematic sweeps in Brush Mountain region; Over 8,000 Virginians sterilized
ID: 1385
1933
ID: 1403
Nazi Law for the Prevention of Defective Progeny - 400,000 Germans immediately targeted
ID: 1403
1933
ID: 1404
Nazi Hereditary Health Law passed, directly based on American eugenic sterilization models
ID: 1404
1933
ID: 1405
Max Mason (Rockefeller Foundation) announced comprehensive program for 'control of human behavior'
ID: 1405
1934
ID: 1416
Josef Dejarnette (Virginia hospital superintendent): 'Hitler is beating us at our own game.'
ID: 1416
1934
ID: 1417
C.M. Goethe to E.S. Gosney: 'You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler'
ID: 1417
1934
ID: 1418
Norway and Sweden pass sterilization laws
ID: 1418
1934
ID: 1419
Nazi Germany sterilizing 5,000+ per month, known as 'Hitlerschnitte' (Hitler's cut)
ID: 1419
1935
ID: 1427
Carnegie Institution Advisory Committee concludes: Eugenics 'is by generally accepted definition and understanding not a science'
ID: 1427
1943
ID: 1525
Harry Laughlin dies during epileptic seizure (ironic given his campaign against epileptics)
ID: 1525
1946
ID: 1570
Frederick Osborn (AES President): 'Before 1930, eugenics had a racial and social class bias... not based on any scientific foundation'
ID: 1570
1946
ID: 1571
Paul Popenoe to Verschuer: 'It was indeed a pleasure to hear from you again. I have been very anxious about my colleagues in Germany'
ID: 1571
1950
ID: 1627
Margaret Sanger continues eugenic advocacy: 'decreasing the progeny of those afflicted with transmissible diseases'
ID: 1627
1959
ID: 1750
Frederick Osborn strategy: 'This is a matter of strategy rather than ideology'
ID: 1750
2002
ID: 3073
Virginia governor formally apologizes for eugenic sterilizations
ID: 3073
2003
ID: 3082
James Watson: 'If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease... So I'd like to get rid of that, to help the lower 10 per cent'
ID: 3082