Tudor Georgescu
Tudor Georgescu is Associate Lecturer in the department of History, Philosophy and Religion at Oxford Brookes University and Co-investigator of the Centre for Hidden Histories at the University of Nottingham.
Tudor Georgescu
The Eugenic Fortress
The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania
The ever growing library on the history of eugenics and fascism focuses largely on nation states, while this monograph asks why an ethnic minority, the Transylvanian Saxons, turned to eugenics as a means of self-empowerment in interwar Romania. The Eugenic Fortress investigates and unpacks the eugenic movement that emerged in the early twentieth century, and focuses on its conceptual and methodological evolution during the interwar period. Further on, the book analyzes the gradual process of politicisation and radicalisation at the hands of a second generation of Saxon eugenicists in conjunction with the rise of an equally indigenous fascist movement. The Saxon case study offers valuable insights into why an ethnic minority would seek to re-entrench itself behind the race-hygienic walls of a 'eugenic fortress', as well as the influence host and home nations had upon its design. Georgescu's work is ground breaking in the sense that the history of this uprooted community is usually handled with sensitivity and serious (and critical) research into Transylvanian Saxon involvement with Nazism has been energetically resisted.
Author
- Title
- The Eugenic Fortress
- Subtitle
- The Transylvanian Saxon Experiment in Interwar Romania
- Author
- Tudor Georgescu
- Price
- € 133,99
- ISBN
- 9789633862520
- Format
- eBook ePub (Adobe DRM)
- Number of pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 10 - 10 - 2016
- Series
- CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine
- Categories
- History of Medicine, Science & Technology
- Sociology and Social History
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
- Imprint
- CEU Press
- Also available as
- Hardback - € 134,00
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
i. Imagining a “Eugenic Fortress”: Fascist Who and Eugenic What?
ii. Exclusions
iii. Unpacking the Past
CHAPTER I. Locating and Defining the Transylvanian Saxon Eugenic Discourse
i. Heinrich Siegmund and the Origins of Saxon Eugenics
ii. Saxon Racial Anthropology between Berlin and Vienna
iii. The “Child Enthusiast” Alfred Csallner
iv. Fritz Fabritius’s Self-Help, from “Building Society” to Rebuilding Society
v. Wilhelm Schunn’s National Neighborhoods and Honorary Gifts
CHAPTER II. Assessing the Dysgenic Crisis: Key Concepts and Theses in Alfred Csallner’s Definition of Saxon Degeneration
i. The Lost Children: Family Planning and the Demographic Collapse
ii. The Quality Question: The Nation’s Hereditarily “Best” under Threat of Extinction
iii. Emigration: The Loss of Saxon Hereditary Substance
iv. Mixed Marriages: The End of Racial Distinctiveness
v. Lebensraum: Of “Foreign Invaders,” Saxon Employers, and Society’s Scourges, Alcohol and Tobacco
CHAPTER III. Alfred Csallner in Search of Eugenic Solutions and Institutional Means
i. Eugenic Missionaries: Visions of Priests Old and New
ii. Csallner’s Population Policy Proposals and the Church
iii. Going It Alone: The Society of Child Enthusiasts, 1927–30 138
iv. The Self-Help Race Office, 1932–35
v. The Reinvention of the Race Office as National Department or Statistics, Population Policy, and Genealogy, 1935–38
vi. The National Office for Statistics and Genealogy and Its ix Departments, 1938–41
CHAPTER IV. Fascist Visions of a Eugenic Fortress: The Self-Help’s Origins and Rise to Power, 1922–33
i. Fritz Fabritius and the Origins of Saxon Fascism
ii. Early Development, 1922–29
iii. Expansion and Radicalization, 1929–32
iv. The NSDR Victorious, 1932–33
CHAPTER V. Saxon Fascism in Power, 1933–40
i. The Self-Help’s Various Forms and Formats, 1933–34
ii. War and Peace: The National Community of Germans in Romania, 1935–40
iii. The Mighty Pen: The 1935 National Program of Germans in Romania
iv. Building a Bristling Eugenic Fortress, One Neighborhood at a Time: Wilhelm’s Schunn’s National Neighborhoods, 1933–40
CHAPTER VI. 1940 and Everything After
CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF NAMES
INDEX OF PLACES
