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Erich Rudolf Ferdinand Jaensch (born 26. February 1883 in Breslau; † 12. Januar 1940 in Marburg ) was a German psychologist and philosopher at the Philipps University in Marburg. Jaensch was particularly committed to the Nazi transformation of academic life in the German Reich after the NSDAP came to power.

National Socialism
Jaensch was a member of several National Socialist organizations, was a committed supporter of Hitler - and developed a folk-psychology theory from the point of view of National Socialism.

After the National Socialists seized power, he joined the NSDAP in 1933. In March 1933, he signed the declaration of 300 university teachers for Adolf Hitler, on 11 November 1933, he signed Vow of allegiance of the Professors of the German Universities and High-Schools to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialistic State. He was among the main propagandists of the Nazi ideology in psychology. In 1933 he founded the "Institute for Psychological Anthropology" in Marburg, which also became a hub for National Socialist ideas. He wanted to make Marburg the center of National Socialist philosophy. From 1936 on he was the chairman of the German Psychological Society. His writing and ideas were used to justify National Socialist racial ideology.

In 1939, Jaensch was appointed rector of the University of Marburg. Jaensch accepted this appointment in Nazi uniform. To prove the validity of the Nazi ideology, Jaensch conducted experiments on chicken farms that were to serve as "research and educational tools in human race issues".