Arthur Gütt wrote the „Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring“. He studied medicine in Königsberg and Greifswald, was a field doctor in the First World War and became a district doctor in 1923. He was politically active in the Völkisch movement. He married and had two sons, Dieter and Friedel Gütt. Arthur Gütt was the most important advocate of hereditary health and racial hygiene. In 1934, he became a ministerial councillor at the Race and Settlement Main Office, but also remained head of the Department of Public Health at the Reich Ministry of the Interior. On 9 November 1938, he was promoted to the highest rank within the SS, Brigadeführer. In September 1939, he left the service at his own request. After that, he no longer held any significant office. Heinrich Himmler refused to reinstate him and to assign him important tasks. Gütt was interned in 1945 and died in 1949 after his release.
