13 Facts About Richard Ungewitter

Richard Ungewitter was a German naturist and pioneer of the Freikorperkultur movement and one of its first organizers.

Richard Ungewitter became a clerk in the office of a gardening company, then lived for two years in Norway.

Richard Ungewitter was introduced to nudism by Heinrich Pudor, who published under the pseudonym Heinrich Scham.

In 1903 Richard Ungewitter published a booklet entitled Wieder nacktgewordene Menschen, which made him quite well known.

Richard Ungewitter's best known work is the book Nackt, which appeared in 1908.

Richard Ungewitter suggested that wearing clothing might be a cause of tuberculosis, and theorized that the rays of the sun were beneficial to health because they contained metals.

Richard Ungewitter founded his first organization, the Vereinigung fur hygienische, ethische und asthetische Kultur in Stuttgart around 1906.

In 1907 Richard Ungewitter founded the Loge des aufsteigenden Lebens, to which according to his statement on June 17,1912, more than 800 people belonged.

In 1923, Richard Ungewitter, who dominated the organization, obtained an amendment to its constitution introducing a commitment to "racial hygiene" and requiring a commitment to a political party.

Richard Ungewitter was specifically anti-Semitic, and was associated with the volkisch journal Die Ostara.

Richard Ungewitter was unusual among naturists in making a close connection between nudism, marriage, and racialism, and advocated compulsory nudity together with vegetarianism.

Richard Ungewitter was notably anti-feminist, arguing that girls should be educated only in things that would equip them to run a household and that they should be required to undergo a year's service including physical exercise, and notably hostile toward the rich, whom he attacked for "status arrogance" that extended to preferring fashionable ailments to health.

Richard Ungewitter died in Stuttgart in December 1958, on the evening before his 89th birthday.