15 Facts About Gunnar Heinsohn

Gunnar Heinsohn was a German author, sociologist and economist and professor emeritus at the University of Bremen where he had a chair in social pedagogy from 1984.

Heinrich Gunnar Heinsohn was stationed in Gotenhafen and died before his son was born when his submarine U-438 was sunk.

Gunnar Heinsohn attended school in Oberkassel, Bonn and Sankt Peter-Bohl, where he received his Abitur in 1964.

Gunnar Heinsohn founded the Raphael Lemkin institute genocide and xenophoby.

Gunnar Heinsohn taught at the management centre St Gallen, at the Hochschule Luzern, and in demographic studies at the Bundesakademie fur Sicherheitspolitik in Berlin, and at NATO Defense College in Rome.

Gunnar Heinsohn wrote various books and articles, was a regular in the media and talk shows and published entries at the Axis of good blog and Schweizer Monat.

Gunnar Heinsohn died in Gdansk on 16 February 2023, at age 79.

In collaboration with a famous colleague in Bremen, economist Otto Steiger, Gunnar Heinsohn criticized the "barter paradigm" of money.

Gunnar Heinsohn discussed the origin of modern European demographic patterns, including an interpretation of the European witch hunts of early modern times as pro-natalist re-population policy of the then dominant Catholic Church after the population losses the black death had caused.

In so far Gunnar Heinsohn explained the Holocaust: as an attempt by Hitler and his Nazi cohorts to wipe out the memory and the idea of Jewish ethics.

Gunnar Heinsohn intended to enable Germans as a people to wipe out and conquer other people and lands without being hindered by conscience or ethical norms.

Gunnar Heinsohn holds that the Jewish people were the first in occidental history to abolish sacrifice in the name of a general prohibition of killing, thereby providing an example to other religions still practicing sacrifice that this is unnecessary.

Gunnar Heinsohn opined that the currently accepted chronology was entrenched long before the scientific investigation of the past, based on the chronology provided in the Old Testament.

Gunnar Heinsohn accused 19th century archaeologists of constructing their chronology around Bible synchronisms and of, more or less, following the chronology recorded by Eusebius in the fourth century, who made use of the histories of Egypt and Mesopotamia as well as the Old Testament.

In contrast, Gunnar Heinsohn interpreted stratigraphic evidence to suggest that Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilizations arose around 1,200 BCE, not 3,200 BCE, as the textbooks say.