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20th-century German anthropologists

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Josef Mengele
Nazi SS doctor and Military Officer at Auschwitz (1911–1979)
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Wilhelm Schmidt
German anthropologist, linguist and historian of religion (1868–1954)
Arnold Gehlen
German academic (1904-1976)
Eugen Fischer
German physician (1874-1967)
Helmuth Plessner
German philosopher and sociologist (1892–1985)
Hans F. K. Günther
German Eugenicist (1891–1968)
Nils Seethaler
German cultural anthropologist
Hugo Obermaier
Spanish-German historian and anthropologist (1877–1946)
Curt Nimuendajú
German anthropologist (1883-1945)
Martin Gusinde
German-Austrian priest and ethnologist (1886-1969)
Bruno Beger
German racial anthropologist (1911–2009)
Hermann Klaatsch
German anthropologist (1863–1916)
Nikolai Grube
German Mesoamericanist
Paul Kirchhoff
German anthropologist (1900-1972)
Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt
German anthropologist (1892-1965)
Ludwig Woltmann
German anthropologist, zoologist, philosopher (1871–1907)
Ulli Beier
German editor (1922-2011)
Günther Tessmann
German explorer, botanist and zoologist (1884-1969)
Robert Lehmann-Nitsche
German anthropologist (1872-1938)
Georg Pfeffer
German anthropologist (1943–2020)
Johannes Fabian
anthropologist
Aparna Rao
German anthropologist
Ilse Schwidetzky
German anthropologist (1907–1997)
Ludwig Kohl-Larsen
German physician, anthropologist and explorer (1884-1969)
Hans Fleischhacker
German anthropologist
Wolfgang Abel
anthropologist (1905-1997)
Linda Fierz-David
Swiss philologist (1891-1955)
Otto Reche
German anthropologist (1879-1966)
Gerd Koch
cultural anthropologist, ethnologist
Werner Müller
German anthropologist (1907–1990)
Emil Ludwig Schmidt
German ethnologist and anthropologist (1837-1906)