Hans-Georg Stümke

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Hans-Georg Stümke (born September 16, 1941 in Koenigsberg , † September 29, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German weather observer , writer , teacher , historian and publicist .

Growing up as the son of a Wehrmacht officer in Celle , Lower Saxony , he first worked as a civilian weather observer in the German Armed Forces , in order to then catch up on his secondary school diploma. His coming out as a homosexual was in the early 1960s and before the student revolt . He studied history in Berlin.

Grave of Hans Georg Stümke in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin

He developed his political activities first in the Communist League , later within the Greens , but above all as a pioneer of the West German, later all-German gay movement that emerged after 1968 , which he maneuvered into different alliances, but without letting them become dependent, in line with the definition of power by Hannah Arendt. From him came the first news about the Stonewall riots in New York, which in Germany became the starting point for the so-called Christopher Street Day demonstrations, the initial number of which grew from a few dozen to millions. He joined the LSVD at an early age , supported the association in an advisory and literary manner, including with its expansion of the gay association in the GDR into an all-German lesbian and gay association. The taz described him as "one of the most important figures in the Federal Republican gay movement".

Stümke published several books, some under a pseudonym. He often and gladly accepted invitations to lectures in which he had a politically sustainable effect.

At the age of 61 he died of cancer in Berlin. His urn grave is in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery .

Books (selection)

  • Hans Georg Stümke: We get older for free. Gay life past thirty. Experiences, interviews, reports. With contributions by Michael Bochow , Rainer Hoffmann and Rüdiger Lautmann and Michael Schmidt, Verlag rosa Winkel, Berlin, June 1998, ISBN 3-86149-071-4
  • Hans-Georg Stümke: Homosexuals in Germany: A Political History . Verlag CH Beck, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-406-33130-0
  • Hans-Georg Stümke, Rudi Finkler : Rosa Winkel, Rosa Lists: Homosexuals and 'healthy people's feelings' from Auschwitz to today , Verlag Rowohlt TB-V, Reinbek, 1981, ISBN 3-499-14827-7
  • "Elvira lace shoe" alias "Elvira Totterheels", pseudonym: Elvira in Gran Canaria and Elvira in Gran Canaria. Addendum , Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin, January 1994, ISBN 3-86149-039-0 , translations into English

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Feddersen: Inexorable in the fight for gay rights , Obituary, taz, October 4, 2002.

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personal data
SURNAME Stümke, Hans-Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German weather observer, writer, teacher, historian and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2002
Place of death Berlin