Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German biologist and eugenicist (died 1969)

Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer

German human biologist, national socialist, and geneticist

Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer was a German-Dutch human biologist and geneticist, who was the Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Münster until he retired in 1965. A member of the Dutch noble Verschuer family, his title Freiherr is often translated as baron.