Volhard was born on May 20th,1900, as son of a famous internist and nephropolgist.
Volhard studied German Literature in Halle, where he received his PhD in 1927 on The Individual and Society in Fr.M. Klingers Novels (Orig.: Der Einzelne und die Gesellschaft in Fr. M. Klingers Romanen).
In 1933 he became assistant at the Institute for Cultural Morphology (today: Frobenius-Institut) at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt a.M. He participated in various field trips of the D.I.A.F.E., e.g. to Transjordania and Libya (1934-35), Southern France and Eastern Iberia (1934). Volhard was considered to be one of Frobenius' 'crown princes'.
Volhard worked on cannibalism as a universal phenomenon, also organized the German Association for Culturel Morphology and edited the first Volumes of Paideuma.
Volhard served in WW II as a soldier and died shortly before the end of the war, in the battle fo Cleves (Feb 1945). Far into the 1970s, Volhards family was cordially related to the Frobenius-Institute.
(text based on Obituary written by A.E.Jensen and published in Paideuma 3. Vol 3-5, Oct 1948, pp. 191-193 (also photo source))
