Hans Kummerlöwe

Richard Arthur Hans Kummerlöwe (5 September 1903 in Leipzig – 11 August 1995 in Münich), with the spelling changed to Kumerloeve from 1948 was a German ornithologist who served as an SS Officer during the Second World War.

He was involved in the "Nazification" of German and Austrian museums, making them tools for explaining theories of race and genetic purity.

He graduated in 1923 at the Humboldtschule and then went to the University of Leipzig, receiving a summa cum laude doctorate in philosophy on June 7, 1930.

Meisenheimer was a Jew while Kummerlöwe was an active National Socialist leading to differences and finally giving up study.

Under his direction, the zoological museum was modified so as to serve as a tool for educating the public on how National Socialism was biologically oriented.

His publications in the journal "Papers and Reports from the State Museums for Animal Science and Ethnology in Dresden" have been removed from copies in many libraries across Europe.

It is thought that in these papers in 1939 and 1940, he expressed his political ideas and it is believed that, after the war, Kummerlöwe managed to purge libraries across Europe holding his writings in journals.