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Magnus T. Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a Jewish German physician and sexologist, whose citizenship was later revoked by the Nazi government. [ 2 ] Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology and medicine. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee and World League ...
The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (German: Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK) was founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin in May 1897, to campaign for social recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, and against their legal persecution. [1] [2] [3] It was the first LGBT rights organization in history.
Vita homosexualis, a 1902 collection of August Fleischmann's popular pamphlets on third gender and against Paragraph 175, confiscated by Nazis on 6 May 1933. The Institute of Sex Research was founded by Magnus Hirschfeld and his collaborators Arthur Kronfeld, a once famous psychotherapist and later professor at the Charité, and Friedrich Wertheim, a dermatologist.
In 1897, Magnus Hirschfeld founded the world's first homosexual organization, the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, whose aim was to use science to improve public tolerance of homosexuality and repeal Paragraph 175. During the German Empire, the movement was restricted to an educated elite, but it greatly expanded in the aftermath of World War ...
When Giese was a student he met Magnus Hirschfeld after a lecture in Munich around 1918. [3] Later he became an employee in the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and finally Hirschfeld's life partner. He took over the management of the archive of the Institute. Hirschfeld described their relationship as a "physical-mental connection".
Silent film. German intertitles. Different from the Others (‹See Tfd› German: Anders als die Andern) is a silent German melodramatic film produced during the Weimar Republic. [1] It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel. [2] It was directed by Richard Oswald, and the story co-written by Oswald and Magnus ...
The Foundation's name remembers two personalities who are important for the worldwide struggle for the Human Rights of gay people: Dr Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935), after the German physician, sexologist, sexual reformer and civil rights activist and FannyAnn Eddy (1974–2004), the prominent lesbian human rights activist from Sierra Leone, who was murdered in 2004.
The July 1914 edition of the Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. The Yearbook for Intermediate Sexual Types (Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen) was an annual publication of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (German: Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), an early LGBT rights organization founded by German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897.