Hans Giese

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Hansernst Friedrich Giese (born June 26, 1920 in Frankfurt am Main ; † July 21 or July 22, 1970 (found) near Saint-Paul-de-Vence , France ) was a German physician and sexologist .

Life

Hans Giese, son of constitutional and canon lawyer Friedrich Giese , studied medicine , philosophy and German in Freiburg im Breisgau . He completed his studies in 1943 with the graduation to the Dr. phil. ab (Dissertation The Principle of Polarity in Goethe's Poetry ). On January 1, 1942, he became a member of the NSDAP and heard Martin Heidegger's lectures . Inspired by his thoughts, he gave a lecture on January 28, 1944 on the subject of investigations into the nature of encounter , which is now considered a literary milestone in the emancipation of homosexuals. Unique for the time, he made an attempt to develop a system-compliant, male-union theory of homosexuality ( Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller ).

After the Second World War he also received his doctorate in medicine (dissertation The forms of male homosexuality - investigations on 130 examples ). In April 1949 he founded the Institute for Sexual Research in Kronberg im Taunus . In October 1949, in collaboration with Kurt Hiller, he participated in the re-establishment of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee . However, he soon fell out with Hiller. The University of Frankfurt rejected his application for a habilitation with reference to his openly represented homosexuality.

In 1957 he was a scientific advisor for the feature film The Third Sex by director Veit Harlan , who had made anti-Semitic propaganda films in the Third Reich . In a supporting film that was shown in some cities, Giese and Harlan had a conversation about homosexuality. Giese intended to initiate a debate on § 175 , which has been in force since the German Empire , with the central statement: "Homosexuals are different, but not criminals". Although Harlan had been recognized as "exonerated" in several arbitration chamber proceedings , his opponents continued to fight violently. The film in the original version was banned in Germany by the voluntary self-regulation of the film industry . The film distribution company, worried about its investments, had scenes re-shot and edited, whereby the tendency was changed. As different from you and me (§ 175) he came into the cinemas after all.

Giese went to Hamburg in 1958 , where he was able to complete his habilitation and became a professor in 1965. His institute for sex research was integrated into the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf . He sympathized with the libertarian branch of the APO . For the Rowohlt publishing house from 1968 he published the paperback series rororo Sexualität . Giese had a fatal accident in July 1970 during a mountain hike on the Côte d'Azur. According to Volkmar Sigusch , Giese was "the most influential sexologist of the Adenauer era".

Bibliography (selection)

  • (Ed.): Monograph series contributions to sexual research from 1952, together with the psychiatrist Hans Bürger-Prinz
  • (Ed.): Dictionary of Sexual Science , Bonn: Instituts-Verlag 1952
  • (Ed.): The sexuality of man. Handbook of medical sex research (1955), 2nd, extended edition Enke, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 3-432-01713-8 .
  • (Ed. With A. Willy): Man, gender, society. The sex life of our time presented in a commonly understandable way . Paris: Guillaume Aldor 1954; German license edition: Frankfurt am Main: Günter Zühlsdorf 1954
  • The homosexual man in the world , Stuttgart: Enke 1958; 2., revised. 1964 edition
  • (Ed., In connection with VE v. Gebsattel): Psychopathology of Sexuality , Stuttgart: Enke 1962
  • (Ed.): The sexual perversion (historical texts). Frankfurt am Main: Akademische Verlagsges. 1967
  • (Ed.): On the reform of criminal law . Symposium of the German Society for Sexual Research from November 13-14, 1967 in Bonn (Contribution. Sexualforsch., H. 43). Enke: Stuttgart 1968
  • (Ed.): Enlightenment in magazines? (Contribution. Sexualforsch., H. 44). Stuttgart: Enke 1968
  • (with Gunter Schmidt): Student sexuality. Behavior and attitude. A survey of 12 West German universities. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1968

literature

  • Martin Dannecker : Hans Giese (1920–1970). In: Volkmar Sigusch and Günter Grau (eds.): Personal Lexicon of Sexual Research . Frankfurt / M., New York: Campus 2009, pp. 226-235 - ISBN 978-3-593-39049-9 .
  • Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller : Man for man. A biographical lexicon. Suhrkamp, ​​2001, ISBN 3-518-39766-4 .
  • Volkmar Sigusch : Hans Giese and his theory of homosexuality. In: Journal for Sexual Research. 10, 1997, pp. 245-252.
  • Volkmar Sigusch: 50 years of the German Society for Sex Research. In: Journal for Sexual Research. 14, 2001, pp. 39-80.
  • Volkmar Sigusch: History of Sexology . Frankfurt / M., New York: Campus 2008, pp. 409-420 - ISBN 978-3-593-38575-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mario Kramp: "Heaven and Hell": the life of Cologne homosexuals 1945-1969 , 1995, p. 103
  2. ^ V. Sigusch, Sexualities. Frankfurt a. M. 2013. p. 190.
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giese, Hansernst Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and sex researcher
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1970 or July 22, 1970
Place of death near Saint-Paul-de-Vence , France