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Zimmerman, Andrew
Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany, 12/2001Book Chapter
In addition to presenting a model for political and intellectual culture in the Kaiserreich, anthropology contributed to a reconstruction of German nationalism. In the 1870s, the German Anthropological Society persuaded the German states to record the hair, eye, and skin color of over 6 million German schoolchildren to determine the fate of the fair-skinned, blond, blue-eyed “classic Teutons” (classische Erscheinungen des Germanen) described by Tacitus and the origins of the brown-skinned, brown-haired, brown-eyed individuals who had become so preponderant in Germany. The survey produced important anthropological knowledge about the nation, particularly that Germans were a blond, blue-eyed, and white-skinned “race,” which was contrasted to brunet “races,” particularly Jews. Anthropologists thus made their notions of race, which they had developed in studies of non-Europeans, relevant also to European identity. Instead of Humboldt's nation of scholars or Fichte's linguistic notion of Germanness, anthropologists disseminated a biological national identity, one that would have importance for subsequent developments in German history.
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