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Wilhelm Stepp – from pioneer of vitamin research to co-architect of Nazi nutrition policy. An ambivalent figure in the shadow of the dictatorship. The essential organic substances collectively known as ‘vitamins’ are now an integral part of contemporary food-related discourse and constitute a market worth billions in Germany. A pioneer of German vitamin research was the internist Wilhelm Stepp, born in Nuremberg in 1882. He reached the pinnacle of his academic career in 1934 with his appointment to the University of Munich. Simon Gronewold analyses his work across the political turning points of the 20th century and the accompanying shift in the discourse on nutrition and vitamins. From 1933 onwards, Stepp clearly aligned himself with the Nazi regime and acted as a propagandist for its vision of ‘healthy public nutrition’. The author outlines the tension between scientific ambitions, political expediency and ideological co-optation within which Stepp’s career unfolded. As a member and chairman of the German Society for Internal Medicine and as a participant in nutritional policy measures, Wilhelm Stepp linked science with ideology. However, conflicts with the Nazi university structures and his assistance to people persecuted by the regime result in an ambivalent assessment of Stepp.
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Keywords
- Biopolitics of health
- Epistemes of science
- Germany
- Health
- History of research and publication in internal medicine
- history of science
- Ideology in science
- Intellectual autonomy
- interdisciplinarity
- Internist
- Long-term effects of political frameworks on research directions
- market dynamics
- medicine
- Mentoring and career trajectories of female physicians
- Methods of discourse analysis in historiography
- munich
- Nazi regime
- networks
- Nuremberg
- Nutrition
- Nutrition policy
- Pioneering work
- Public nutrition
- Scientific ethics under National Socialism
- State influence
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBT Biography: science, technology and medicine
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
- thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
- Theories of science
- university
- Vitamin research
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DOI: 10.46500/83536030Editions