Heinrich Schurtz (born 11 December 1863 in

Zwickau Zwickau (; is, with around 87,500 inhabitants (2020), the fourth-largest city of Saxony after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz and it is the seat of the Zwickau District. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ' ...

; died 2 May 1903 in

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) was a German ethnologist and historian. His most significant work is said to be ''Altersklassen und Männerbünde'' (''Age-classes and Male Bands'') which emphasized the role gender and generational issues have in social institutions and argued that basing the society on the family was a step backwards. His notion of ''Männerbünde'' placed male associations, where he deemed masculinity more "unfettered", in opposition to the family which he saw as dominated by women. Notions of ''Männerbünde'', though not just Schurtz's, would have an influence on

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's SSThe Science of the Swastika by Bernard Thomas Mees, pg 90
/ref> while in a very different way his ideas on same-sex bonding has become of historical interest to

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schurtz, Heinrich German ethnologists 19th-century German historians Academic staff of Leipzig University People from Zwickau 1863 births 1903 deaths German male non-fiction writers