Golden Lining
04-19-2019, 06:45 PM
"Among the 4960 Westphalian refugees I found 19 school children with a noble family name, lots of old Prussian or Baltic German names like v. Schichau, v. Saldern, v.Ditfurth or v. Osten-Sacken but also eight from families that had been ennobled, like von Bauer, von Beck or von Müller. Out of the 19 aristocrats, judging from the father's profession, ten belonged to the Upper class, two the Upper middle class and three to the lower middle class (employed, non-farmers without possessions). Three weren't rankable. Only three of the aristocrats are old-established, the others had grand parents from different regions. One quarter of the grandparents came from the Baltic area, 43 percent from the other areas of research (former German Eastern regions), about 19 percent are from Western Germany and 12 percent are born in different European cities, what tells more about the aristocratic lifestyle than about its origin.
Development state of the aristocratic children is similar to that of the self-employed middle class, thus below that of the Upper calss and the upper middle class. The same is true for their height. The academic skill score is 1.79, between the Upper class and the upper middle class. It matches the social standing of the aristocratic children. The 8 children out of the ennobled families had 1.87 score, not above the aristocratic average.
When it comes to many progressive anthropological traits - those that are characteristically for the Upper class - the aristocrats have an extreme position. There they exceed even the social Upper class (defined by the father's profession) when it comes to head length, head narrowness and facial breath, a Cephalic Index of 77.3, a facial index of 87.7, two units aove that of the Upper class (thus narrow faces), the nasal index (narrow noses), and the curval vault at the back of the head, the position of the eyeball (deep-lying eyes) and often long-oval-shaped faces. When it comes to the head breadth and the Cephalic Index the difference is statistically highly significant. The nobility is thus defined by extremely narrow head and facial proportions. The body build, however, is, with a Rohrer Index that matches the Upper class, not leptosome as one could suspect, but highly athletic-mesomorphic. When it comes to racial typology they are mostly Nordids and Dalofaelids, with Alpines and East Europids being absent.
In comparison to the whole non-noble people there are even more differences. Academic achievements of aristocrats are one standard deviation higher than that of the non-aristocrats. The difference in height is 2cm but that is not statistically significant but the greater head length, narrower head breadth, the lower CI and the higher facial index are. Morphognostically, the higher occurence of narrow-oval faces and curved backs of the head is statistially sound. Raising the significance level to 10%, also the deep-lying eyes and more common Nordid type in the broader sense (Teutonordids and Dalonordids) is proven. The highly significant occurence of athletic constitutional body type is remarkeable, while in our other data it is, in contrast to that, often shown that the Upper class has a more strong tendency towards the leptosome-ectomorphic build.
Those social anthropological attributes that exceed that of the modern-day Upper class can probably best be explained by social selection going on over a long time where the cognitive skills were favored in mating, as also the fitness for war and bodily aesthetics. Those that matched the ideal had bigger chances to reach higher status jobs, of being married into higher stands or being ennobled, and in general, to have more children. Lazy aristocrats, like those owners of the knight's estates in the East, declined into being simple farmers. The dominance of the athleti c body type is probably the result of a selection towards skills for war, that was especially important for the Prussian nobility. The results of our study show that the East German nobility was indeed a real elite in the biological sense.
Prussian King Friedrich II. (1740 - 1786), called The Great, protected the nobility on purpose, e.g. he forbid mere civilians buying aristocratic land. He justified that with the importance of the aristocracy for the military: "we have to conserve the good race of those whose sons defend the country"
The king knew how much he needed his nobility. "
from the excellent book "Anthropologie des frühreren Ostdeutschlands (vor 1945)" by Andreas Vonderach (2019).
I descent partially from that group, so I use those facts to feed my narcissism.
Development state of the aristocratic children is similar to that of the self-employed middle class, thus below that of the Upper calss and the upper middle class. The same is true for their height. The academic skill score is 1.79, between the Upper class and the upper middle class. It matches the social standing of the aristocratic children. The 8 children out of the ennobled families had 1.87 score, not above the aristocratic average.
When it comes to many progressive anthropological traits - those that are characteristically for the Upper class - the aristocrats have an extreme position. There they exceed even the social Upper class (defined by the father's profession) when it comes to head length, head narrowness and facial breath, a Cephalic Index of 77.3, a facial index of 87.7, two units aove that of the Upper class (thus narrow faces), the nasal index (narrow noses), and the curval vault at the back of the head, the position of the eyeball (deep-lying eyes) and often long-oval-shaped faces. When it comes to the head breadth and the Cephalic Index the difference is statistically highly significant. The nobility is thus defined by extremely narrow head and facial proportions. The body build, however, is, with a Rohrer Index that matches the Upper class, not leptosome as one could suspect, but highly athletic-mesomorphic. When it comes to racial typology they are mostly Nordids and Dalofaelids, with Alpines and East Europids being absent.
In comparison to the whole non-noble people there are even more differences. Academic achievements of aristocrats are one standard deviation higher than that of the non-aristocrats. The difference in height is 2cm but that is not statistically significant but the greater head length, narrower head breadth, the lower CI and the higher facial index are. Morphognostically, the higher occurence of narrow-oval faces and curved backs of the head is statistially sound. Raising the significance level to 10%, also the deep-lying eyes and more common Nordid type in the broader sense (Teutonordids and Dalonordids) is proven. The highly significant occurence of athletic constitutional body type is remarkeable, while in our other data it is, in contrast to that, often shown that the Upper class has a more strong tendency towards the leptosome-ectomorphic build.
Those social anthropological attributes that exceed that of the modern-day Upper class can probably best be explained by social selection going on over a long time where the cognitive skills were favored in mating, as also the fitness for war and bodily aesthetics. Those that matched the ideal had bigger chances to reach higher status jobs, of being married into higher stands or being ennobled, and in general, to have more children. Lazy aristocrats, like those owners of the knight's estates in the East, declined into being simple farmers. The dominance of the athleti c body type is probably the result of a selection towards skills for war, that was especially important for the Prussian nobility. The results of our study show that the East German nobility was indeed a real elite in the biological sense.
Prussian King Friedrich II. (1740 - 1786), called The Great, protected the nobility on purpose, e.g. he forbid mere civilians buying aristocratic land. He justified that with the importance of the aristocracy for the military: "we have to conserve the good race of those whose sons defend the country"
The king knew how much he needed his nobility. "
from the excellent book "Anthropologie des frühreren Ostdeutschlands (vor 1945)" by Andreas Vonderach (2019).
I descent partially from that group, so I use those facts to feed my narcissism.