Volkmar Weiss is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 scientist and writer, primarily interested in the field of IQ research. He is mostly known for his controversial thesis that biological intelligence is fixed to social class and for co-founding the German Social Union

German Social Union (East Germany)

The German Social Union is a small right-wing conservative political party active in the eastern German states since 1990. It was started as a conservative opposition group during the "Wende" in the German Democratic Republic...

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He was previously a member of the German Christian Democratic Union

Christian Democratic Union (Germany)

The Christian Democratic Union of Germany is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. It is regarded as on the centre-right of the German political spectrum...

 (CDU) from 1990 to 1993. In his controversial book Deutschland schafft sich ab Thilo Sarrazin

Thilo Sarrazin

Thilo Sarrazin is a German politician and former member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank...

 refers to and uses Weiss' arguments to support his own conclusions in ch. 8.

Scientific works

• Psychogenetik: Humangenetik in Psychologie und Psychiatrie. VEB Gustav Fischer, Jena 1982, . Reprint in: Volkmar Weiss, Siegfried Lehrl, Helmar Frank
  Helmar Frank
  Helmar Gunter Frank, born February 19, 1933, is a German mathematician and pedagogist. He was among the first scientists to apply mathematical methods in teaching and psychology...
  
  : Psychogenetik der Intelligenz. (Beiband zu Jahrgang 27, 1986 der Vierteljahresschrift grkg, Grundlagenstudien aus Kybernetik und Geisteswissenschaft) Verlag Modernes Lernen, Dortmund 1986, ISBN 3-8080-0106-2.
• Bevölkerung und soziale Mobilität: Sachsen 1550-1880. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-05-001973-5
• with Katja Münchow: Ortsfamilienbücher mit Standort Leipzig. 2. Auflage. Degener, Neustadt/Aisch 1998, ISBN 3-7686-2099-9, in: Bearbeitete Fragen und Methoden bei der wissenschaftlichen Auswertung von Ortsfamilienbüchern und ihren Vorstufen. S. 74-176 http://www.volkmar-weiss.de/publ4.html
• Die IQ-Falle: Intelligenz, Sozialstruktur und Politik. Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz 2000, ISBN 3-7020-0882-9.

Novels

• Berlin nach dem Türkenaufstand (Eng: Berlin after the Turkish uprising)
• Das Reich Artam. Die alternative Geschichte (Eng: The Reich Artam. The alternative history)

External links

• Volkmar Weiss Review of Sarrazin's book 'Germany Does Away With Itself'
• Official website
• Weiss' posts at Knol
  Knol
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