Ernst Röhm

male, deceased (1934)
World War I, German Military, LGBThistoryofGermany, German, death by firearm, Victim of The Night of the Long Knives…German veteran of World War I
Ernst Julius Röhm, also known as Ernst Roehm in English (Munich November 28, 1887 – july 2, 1934) was a German military officer, and the com...
Edmund Heines

Edmund Heines

male, deceased (1934)
death by firearm, executed Nazi leader, Victim of The Night of the Long Knives, reichstag, LGBThistoryofGermany, SA officer…Night of Long Knives
Edmund Heines was Ernst Röhm's deputy in the SA, and possibly one of his lovers as well. Adolf Hitler had a close friendship with Röhm, and to a le...
Magnus Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld

male, deceased (1935)
German, Early campaigners for LGBT rights, LGBT history, LGBT rights activist, sexologist, Charlottenburg…German native of Pomerania, LGBThistoryofGermany, From germany, LGBT, LGBT writer
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate. He was born in Kolberg (modern Kołobrzeg) in a Jewish family, the s...
Karl Gorath

Karl Gorath

male
Documentary film, documentary, ALLIES, Allies of World War II, Neuengamme, Transvestism…Nazi Germany, LGBThistoryofGermany
Karl Gorath (born 12 December 1912, Bad Zwischenahn, Germany) was a gay man who was arrested in 1938 and imprisoned for the (then) crime of...
Adolf Brand

Adolf Brand

male, deceased (1945)
Benedict Friedlaender, writer, Early campaigners for LGBT rights, gay, From germany, LGBT writer…LGBT rights activist, LGBThistoryofGermany
Adolf Brand (1874-1945) was a German writer, anarchist and pioneer activist for the acceptance of male homosexuality. Born in Berlin on November...

Heinz Dörmer

male, 97 years old
Modern pederasty, Pederasty, Nazi Germany, Hitler Youth, Nazi concentration camp survivor, LGBThistoryofGermany…homosexual activities with members of his troop
Heinz Dörmer was a gay man who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the 'crime' of homosexuality. Deeply involved with church youth groups as a child, b...
Karl Ernst

Karl Ernst

male, 105 years old
honeymoon, Paul Röhrbein, Reichstag building on fire, Reichstag building, stormtroopers, Night of the Long Knives…LGBThistoryofGermany, Victim of The Night of the Long Knives
Karl Ernst was an SA gruppenfuhrer who, in early 1933, was the SA leader in Berlin. Before joining the NSDAP he had been a hotel bell-boy. It has...

Karl Lange

male
Modern pederasty, Fuhlsbüttel, paragraph 175, Waldheim prison, Fuhlsbüttel prison, From Hamburg…LGBThistoryofGermany, Nazi Germany
Karl Lange was the son of an American father and a German mother, who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the (then) crime of homosexuality. In 1935,...
Paul Gerhard Vogel

Paul Gerhard Vogel

male
Nazi, Nazi Germany, Hitler Youth, LGBThistoryofGermany, homosexuality, hard labour
Paul Gerhard Vogel is a German man who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the (then) crime of homosexuality. Vogel was initially imprisoned for five...

Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim

male
Nazi, prison, Nazi Germany, concentration camp, Political prisoner, Nazi concentration camp survivor…LGBThistoryofGermany
Friedrich-Paul von Groszheim was a German man who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the (then) crime of homosexuality. Von Groszheim was one of 230...