Friedrich Radszuweit

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Friedrich Radszuweit (born April 15, 1876 in Königsberg ; † March 15, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German homosexual activist, entrepreneur, publisher and author .

Life

Edition of the German magazine Die Freund , 1928

Friedrich Radszuweit opened a retail store for women's clothing in Berlin in 1901; in the same year he married Johanna Berta Schneider (* approx. 1872). In 1923 he took over the chairmanship of the Bund für Menschenrecht EV ( BfM ), founded in 1920 as the German Friendship Association and renamed in 1923 . The association campaigned for the rights of homosexual people and demanded the abolition of § 175 . Radszuweit founded a publishing house which from 1923 to 1933 published the monthly magazine Blätter für Menschenrecht for members of the BfM and the weekly magazine Das Freundsblatt. His publishing house published other magazines for homosexual men and women such as Die Insel , Magazin der Einsamen (1926–1931), The Third Sex (four issues: 1930/1931) and The Girlfriend , weekly journal for ideal women's friendship .

Radszuweit-Verlag also published books with homosexual content and nude photographs, as well as the first records with songs that had homosexual content (for example by Bruno Balz and Erwin Neuber Bubi let's be friends ).

Radszuweit wrote several successful novels such as Men for Sale , Single Women , The Symphony of Eros and Paul Tritzki's Way of Life . In 1927 he distributed a call to reform Section 175 to members of the Reichstag .

In 1932 Radszuweit died of tuberculosis. His sole heir was Martin Butzkow, whom he adopted in 1929, four weeks after the death of his wife.

Works

  • Men for sale. Lipsia-Verlag, Leipzig 1932.
  • The symphony of eros. , Kaiser Friedrich-Str. 1, Berlin-Pankow 1925.
  • Paul Tritzki's life path. Orplid-Verlag, Berlin-Pankow 1924.

literature

  • Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller , man for man. P. 568 f.
  • Stefan Micheler: Self-images and external images of the "others". Men covetous men in the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era. Universitätsverlag Konstanz, Konstanz 2005, Chapter III, pp. 82–116.
  • Stefan Micheler: Magazines, associations and bars for same-sex desirous people in the Weimar Republic. August 1, 2008, at: www.stefanmicheler.de/wissenschaft/stm_zvlggbm.pdf .
  • Jens Dobler: Epilogue. In: Friedrich Radszuweit: Men for sale. Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2012, pp. 159–178.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Radszuweit: False teachings about homosexuality . § 175 must be abolished! Memorandum to the German Reichstag to eliminate a cultural disgrace. Published by Bund für Menschenrechte, Berlin 1927, 14 pages.

Web links

  • Friedrich Radszuweit in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Radszuweit, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher, author and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1932
Place of death Berlin