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Lennart Reidar Armas Hedman (17 June 1896 Vanaja - 26 October 1961 in Tullinge, Stockholm County, Sweden) was a Finnish educator, eugenist and far-right politician. He had a master's degree in philosophy. He had studied genetics at the University of Helsinki under .

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  • Lennart Reidar Armas Hedman (17 June 1896 Vanaja - 26 October 1961 in Tullinge, Stockholm County, Sweden) was a Finnish educator, eugenist and far-right politician. He had a master's degree in philosophy. He had studied genetics at the University of Helsinki under . Reidar Hedman was the director of the Perttula Education Institute for the Feeble-Minded, the first Finnish-language developmental disability institution founded by his father Edvin Hedman, in 1927–1944. Hedman specialized in eugenics and racial hygiene and supported a comprehensive forced sterilization program for the mentally handicapped. Hedman believed that human intelligence was the basis of all spiritual life and could not be elevated through education, for example. (en)
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  • Lennart Reidar Armas Hedman (17 June 1896 Vanaja - 26 October 1961 in Tullinge, Stockholm County, Sweden) was a Finnish educator, eugenist and far-right politician. He had a master's degree in philosophy. He had studied genetics at the University of Helsinki under . (en)
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