It was published in Hamburg, West Germany by the Society for Biological Anthropology, Eugenics and Behavioural Science [de], whose chairman, Jürgen Rieger, was also the journal's editor.

[4] Other board members included Donald A. Swan, an anthropologist and Mankind Quarterly editor who had received grants from the Pioneer Fund,[4] and Alain de Benoist, who also wrote for the journal under the pseudonym Fabrice Laroche.

[6] According to Michael Billig, the content published in Neue Anthropologie "...is racist and it is preserving the racial philosophy of Nazi theorist Hans Günther.

Several other members of the journal's advisory board also had connections to neo-fascism and neo-Nazism, including Rolf Kosiek [de], Hans Georg Amsel, and F.J.

[9][7] The close similarity and connections between the two journals has also led to Neue Anthropologie being described as one of two European "clones of Mankind Quarterly" to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s (the other being Nouvelle École).