Ernst Rüdin

Ernst Rüdin (19 April 1874 – 22 October 1952) was a Swiss-born German psychiatrist, geneticist, eugenicist and Nazi, rising to prominence under Emil Kraepelin and assuming the directorship at the German Institute for Psychiatric Research in Munich. While he has been credited as a pioneer of psychiatric inheritance studies, he also argued for, designed, justified and funded the mass sterilization and clinical killing of adults and children.

For the Swiss slalom canoeist, see Ernst Rudin (canoeist).

Ernst Rüdin
Rüdin in 1944
Born(1874-04-19)19 April 1874
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Died22 October 1952(1952-10-22) (aged 78)
Munich, West Germany
Political partyNazi Party (1937–1945)
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