Eugen Fischer - Later Life

Later Life

Eugen Fischer served as the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, until 1942, when he handed over the directorship of the KWI-A to Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer. Fischer returned from Frederick William University of Berlin at the same time. He was made an honorary member of the German Anthropological Society in 1952.

Eugen Fischer returned to his home town of Freiburg im Breisgau, where he continued to work as an anthropologist.

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