Heinrich Schurtz
Heinrich Schurtz (born 11 December 1863 in Zwickau; died 2 May 1903 in Bremen) was a German ethnologist and historian. His most significant work is said to be Altersklassen und Männerbünde (Age-classes and Male Bands[1]) which emphasized the role gender and generational issues have in social institutions and argued that basing the society on the family was a step backwards.[2] His notion of Männerbünde placed male associations, where he deemed masculinity more "unfettered", in opposition to the family which he saw as dominated by women.[3] Notions of Männerbünde, though not just Schurtz's, would have an influence on Nazi Germany's SS[4] while in a very different way his ideas on same-sex bonding has become of historical interest to Queer studies.
References
[edit]- ^ Schurtz, Heinrich (2023). "Age Classes & Male Bands". Amazon.
- ^ Queer Theory and the Jewish Question by Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz, and Ann Pellegrini, pg 103
- ^ The Upheaval of War: Family, Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918 by Richard Wall, Jay Winter
- ^ The Science of the Swastika by Bernard Thomas Mees, pg 90
