Eduard Oberg

Eduard Oberg

Heinrich Gerhard Eduard Oberg (born September 16, 1858 in Hamm , † October 1, 1917 in Berlin ) was a German works secretary of the Royal Prussian State Railway , but was also referred to as a lawyer , probably for camouflage . He was particularly committed to the homosexual emancipation movement of his time.

Life

Ober was a son of the host and baker Carl Diedrich Oberg and his wife Henriette Wilhelmine Isenbeck. After his training he worked in the Prussian administration as a railway official, first in his hometown of Hamm, from 1897 to 1903 in Hanover , then until around 1910 in Bromberg and finally in Berlin, now as a privateer. He got to know him in 1896 through Max Spohr , publisher of the book Sappho and Sokrates by Magnus Hirschfeld . The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (WhK) was founded on May 15, 1897 by Hirschfeld, Spohr, Oberg and the writer Franz Joseph von Bülow in Berlin. Oberg not only supported the WhK significantly financially, but also became the WhK chairman in the management committee from 1910 onwards. In 1917, Oberg committed suicide at the age of 59 during the First World War . At the funeral service in Berlin's central cemetery on October 8, 1917, Whk secretary Georg Plock gave the memorial speech . "Joyfulness was his youth, his youth without luck, disappointing and difficult and basically lonely his manhood until death."

Web links

• Federal Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Baptism entry in the church book of the Protestant parish Hamm, No. 100/1858.
2. ↑ Federal Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation
3. ^ Yearbook for sexual intermediate stages 17 (1917), pp. 192–194, here p. 192.

literature

• Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller , Ed. Mann für Mann , Teilband 1, Berlin 2010, p. 890.
• Rainer Hoffschildt : Eduard Oberg, co-founder of the 'Scientific-Humanitarian Committee' (1858-1917) . In: Communications from the Magnus Hirschfeld Society , No. 37/38 (June 2007), pp. 93-103.