Ludwig Külz (18 February 1875 - 1938) was a German colonial physician born in Borna. He was a twin brother to liberal politician Wilhelm Külz (1875-1948).
Ludwig Külz earned his medical doctorate in 1899, and became a doctor with the German Imperial Navy. From 1902 until 1912 he was a colonial doctor in Togo and Kamerun, where he was tasked with dealing with the problem of malaria. Külz used medical arguments such as malaria prevention to justify the racial between blacks and whites in the German colonies as hygienically necessary.[1][2]
With ophthalmologist Alfred Leber (1881-1954), he was part of a mission to German New Guinea (Medizinisch-demographischen Deutsch-Neuguinea-Expedition) in 1913–14. On this expedition was artist Emil Nolde (1867-1956), who created ethnographic paintings of New Guinea.
In 1915 he was promoted to senior medical officer, soon afterwards becoming a naval chief physician (1916).
His best-known publication is Tropenarzt im Afrikanischen Busch, a book that involved Külz's experiences with tropical medicine in Africa.
References
edit- ^ Andreas Eckert: Grundbesitz, Landkonflikte und kolonialer Wandel – Douala 1880 bis 1960. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, S. 118.
- ^ Wolfgang U. Eckart: Politische »Machtergreifung« und medizinische Wissenschaft: Das Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses vom 14. Juli 1933. In: Christoph Gradmann, Oliver von Mengersen: Das Ende der Weimarer Republik und die Nationalsozialistische Machtergreifung, Vorträge Heidelberger Historiker in der Reichspräsident Friedrich Ebert Gedenkstätte. Manutius Verlag, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-925678-48-4, S. 155–156. (Zu Ludwig Külz, der dem »Bastardisierungs«-Problem bei Kindern, die in Ehen zwischen weißen Siedlern und farbigen Eingeborenen geboren wurden, entgegentrat)
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