Sigrid Hunke


Sigrid Hunke was a German author. She is known for her work in the field of religious studies.

Biography

Sigrid Hunke received her PhD in religious studies from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin in 1941. Her tutor was Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss, who later became associated with the ideology of the Neue Rechte. Hunke joined the "Germanistischer Wissenschafteinsatz", the German Sciences Service of the SS, the organization established by Heinrich Himmler to oversee the Germanization of Northern Europe. Her job was to research racial psychology. After 1957, she went to Morocco and stayed two years in Tangier, after which she returned to Bonn.
Hunke was a pagan Unitarian. She was also known for her claims of Muslim influence over Western values. In her book, "Allahs Sonne über dem Abendland" she asserts that "the influence exerted by the Arabs on the West was the first step in freeing Europe from Christianity." The scholar Sylvain Gouguenheim includes a lengthy description of her work in an appendix to his book Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel under the heading “The Legacy of Sigrid Hunke”. He refers to her book on Islam and Europe, Allahs Sonne über dem Abendland, in this way: “This text, which extols the superiority of Islam over Christianity, is the work of a Nazi intellectual. At its origin lies the political commitment of the author, who joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1937 and was an active member of the Berlin section of the National Socialist Student Association from 1938 onwards.”