A professor of anthropology at the University of Jena and the most distinguished academic advocate of the racial superiority of Nordics on which Hitler built his pro-Aryan policies.
Gunther accepted that not all Germans were Nordics tall, fair-haired, of fair complexion, and blue-eyed but maintained that there were more pure Nordics than members of other races and of mixed stock. He attributed to Nordic men and women those characteristics thought to be good, and the bad characteristics to the other races, in particular the Jews.