Rudiger Lautmann

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Lautmann 2012 in Berlin

Rüdiger Lautmann (born December 22, 1935 in Koblenz ) is a German lawyer and sociologist . In 1971 Lautmann was the first professor at a German university to study the past and present of discrimination against homosexuals .

biography

Lautmann grew up in Düsseldorf and initially studied law , and passed the first state examination in 1959. In the same year he began studying sociology, which was financed by the Volkswagen Foundation. After passing the second state examination in law and completing a degree in sociology, he submitted a legal dissertation (1967 in Würzburg) and a sociological dissertation (1969 in Munich). After his first positions at the social research center at the University of Münster in Dortmund and in Bielefeld with Helmut Schelsky and senior assistant with Niklas Luhmann , Lautmann was full professor for general sociology and legal sociology at the University of Bremen from 1971 until his retirement in 2010 . In 1982 the 'Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology' (EMPAS) was founded; 1988 the 'Department for Research into Gender and Sexual Relationships', of which he was director. Following a dpa report from July 3, 1995 - 5:26 p.m., he founded the first center 'Schwulesbische Studien Bremen' (SLS) in Germany at the University of Bremen. In addition to various individual publications, the regular semester circulars of the SLS from 1995 to 1997 (Vol. 1–7) emerged. Important research contents in Bremen were among other things the homosexual paragraphs, their application in the FRG and GDR as well as the penal provisions of § 175 in the 'Third Reich' and in the imperial era. With the emergence of AIDS and HIV in the 1980s, he turned to epidemiology and its discrimination. Gender equality is only mentioned here for the sake of completeness. In Hamburg he headed from 2002 to 2009, the Institute for Safety and Prevention Research (ISIP), which he in 1996 together with Fritz Sack had founded.

Lautmann lives in Berlin . He is a member of the advisory board of the Humanist Union .

Scientific work

One of Lautmann's first scientific works was an empirical project on judicial decision-making. The results published in Justice - the silent violence in 1972 aroused a great deal of attention, and in some cases also decided rejection, within the judiciary and jurisprudence, as they refuted the widespread notion of purely rational decision-making and also focused on non-legal factors.

At an early stage, he was also involved in critical criminology and criminal sociology and was twice active in the editorial team of the Kriminological Journal . He is a member of various professional societies, including the German Society for Social Science Sex Research (DGSS).

Lautmann's importance results from his influence on the evaluation of homosexuality in German sociology. With scientists such as Martin Dannecker or Volkmar Sigusch , among others , Lautmann pushed the depathologization of sexualities decisively around 1970, because homosexuality was also often pathologized in German sociology . From that point on, Lautmann is also considered an expert on the entire practice of sexual criminal law, not only in matters of homosexuality, based on his publications (including The Function of Law in Modern Society or The Compulsion to Virtue - The Social Control of Sexualities ) .

Accusation of promoting pedophilia

Rüdiger Lautmann is a supporter of the legalization of pedophilia. Lautmann was "in April 1979 at the Congress of German Sociologists in Berlin decisively involved in a motion that demanded that paragraph 176, which made sexual acts on children under 14 years of age, be deleted from criminal law."

According to reports from the taz , he is a member of the pedophile lobby organization Arbeitsgemeinschaft Humane Sexualität (AHS) . In a position paper from 1988 (updated 1998/99), this advocated the legalization of sexual contacts between adults and children. In a press release on September 15, 2013, the AHS stated, however, that it has never taken the position that sexual acts between adults and children should be legalized, and that it is not now. On its website, the AHS criticizes that some members of society are "denied the exercise of sexuality, the right to sexuality is downright denied: for example children".

Lautmann wrote an article for Pro familia magazine in issue 3/95 in which he called for a dividing line between child abuse and pedophilia. The founder of the Bremen Pro-Familia family planning center, Gerhard Amendt, criticized the publication of his articles in the Pro Familia magazine . According to Amendt, Rüdiger Lautmann has been known as a "scientifically arguing propagandist" since the publication of his book Die Lust am Kind . Lautmann's study on pedophile desire condemned Amendt as "promoting pedophilia in terms of sexual policy". Lautmann, however, denies these allegations on his website:

“I'm not a 'proponent' of abuse or pedophilia; rather, I have tried to understand the pedophile perpetrators and describe their procedures. I have never voted for the abolition of sexual law or the repeal of Section 176 of the Criminal Code. I always found this requirement extremely strange. What I may have had in mind was the possibility that the judiciary would take into account the type of sexual aggression involved when determining the sentence in each individual case. But that was never my topic either - it was sex-sociological and sex-criminological clarification of what happens when the actions seem so incomprehensible. "

- Rüdiger Lautmann : Lautmanns v. 15th November 2014

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Free choice of law and methodology for applying the law. Legal dissertation at the University of Würzburg 1963. Manuscript printed in 1967.
  • Value and norm. Analysis of terms for sociology. [Phil. Dissertation University of Munich 1969] Dortmund writings on social research. Vol. 37. West German publishing house. Cologne and Dortmund. 1969. 2nd edition 1971.
  • Sociology at the gates of jurisprudence. For cooperation between the two disciplines . Stuttgart. 1971. Spanish translation: Sociologia y jurisprudencia . Buenos Aires 1974.
  • With Hanns Wienold : The social defense system against sexual deviation, especially homosexuality . Report on the research project: Destigmatization through legislation with the collaboration of Egon Rohe. [Manuscript printing]. Bremen / Münster. 1978. 348 pp.
  • Justice - the silent violence. Participant observation and sociological decision analysis. Frankfurt a. M. 1972. 2nd edition Wiesbaden 2011.
  • Social science studies on homosexuality. 8 volumes, Verlag rosa Winkel, Berlin 1980 to 1997.
  • The compulsion to virtue. The social control of sexualities . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1984.
  • With Michael Schetsche : The pornographed desire . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1990, ISBN 3-593-34363-0 .
  • The pleasure in the child. Portrait of the pedophile . Ingrid Klein Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-89521-015-3 .
  • The homosexual and his audience. A balancing act between science and subculture. [Collection of articles from 1973 to 1995. Editing: Detlev Grumbach]. Swarm of Men Script. Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-928983-342 .
  • With Jörg Hutter and Volker Koch-Burghardt: Exclusion makes you sick. Anti-homophobia and HIV infection. AIDS in a social context . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2000 / VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2002, ISBN 3-531-13163-X .
  • Sociology of Sexuality. Erotic body, intimate action and sexual culture . Series: Basics of Sociology. Juventa. Weinheim 2002, ISBN 978-3-7799-1472-3 .

Editorships

  • With Werner Maihofer and Helmut Schelsky : The function of law in modern society. In: Yearbook for Legal Sociology and Legal Theory , Vol. 1. Bertelsmann, Bielefeld 1970.
  • With Johannes Feest : The police. Sociological studies and research reports . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1971.
  • Seminar: Society and Homosexuality. At the same time co-author of various articles. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1977, ISBN 3-518-07800-3 . (2nd edition 1984, ISBN 978-3-518-27800-0 ).
  • Homosexuality. Manual of the history of theory and research. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1993. ISBN 3-593-34747-4 .
  • With Burkhard Jellonnek: National Socialist Terror against Homosexuals. Repressed and unpunished . Schöningh, Paderborn 2002, ISBN 3-506-74204-3 .
  • With Günter Grau : Lexicon on the persecution of homosexuals 1933–1945. Institutions - Competencies - Fields of Activity . Lit, Münster 2011, ISBN 3-8258-9785-0 .
  • With Werner Fuchs a . a .: Lexicon of Sociology. First edition 1973, 5th edition. VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011.
  • With Florian Mildenberger , Jennifer Evans a. Jakob Pastötter: What is homosexuality? Research history, social developments and perspectives. Swarm of men, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86300-163-6 .
  • Caprices. Moments of gay history. Swarm of men, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86300-167-4 .
  • With Thorsten Benkel: Sociology of Criminal Law. Annual issue of the journal for legal sociology 34 .
  • With Ralf Lottmann, María do Mar Castro Varela: Homosexuality_en and Aging. Results from research and practice. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-14008-3 .
  • With Daniela Klimke: sexuality and punishment. Supplement 11 to the Criminological Journal. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2016, ISBN 978-3779935117 .
  • With Hanns Wienold: Georg Simmel and life in the present. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-658-21427-2 .

Publications (selection)

  • Inequality Before the Law: Criminal Justice and Social Classes. Co-author Dorothee Peters. In operations . Journal of Social Policy. 12th year. Issue 1.1973. Pp. 45-54.
  • What is important and to whom is order useful? Sociological perspective. In operations. Journal of Social Policy. 12th year. No. 2. Issue 2. 1973. pp. 36-44.
  • Homosexuality and normality. From the error of our categories. Co-author Rolf Gindorf. In operations. Journal of Social Policy. 13th year. Issue 10.1974. Pp. 108-116.
  • Interview / transcript / script in: 'Rosa Winkel? That's long gone ... Materials for the film of the same name by Peter Recht, Christiane Schmerl and Detlef Stoffel '. AJZ printing and publishing. Bielefeld. 1976. P. 9 ff. [Film production: Bielefeld University - Faculty of Sociology. Format: 16 mm. Running time: 48 minutes. Oberhausen: 8th youth film library on April 26, 1977].
  • Women in right and wrong. Co-author: Ute Gerhard. In: Operations. Journal of Social Policy. 17. Vol. 32. Issue 2. 1978. pp. 56-72.
  • Sexual Offenses - Victimless Offenses? In: Journal for Legal Policy. 13th vol. 2, Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung. Munich. 1980. pp. 44-49. At the same time also in 'Sexualität concrete' Vol. 3, 1981. Again in: Volkmar Sigusch, Ingrid Klein and Hermann L. Gremliza (eds.): Sexualität concrete. Anthology 2. Two thousand and one. Frankfurt. 1st edition October 1984. 3rd edition November 1984. pp. 358-369.
  • Finding the law as a career occupation? A request. In: Ed .: Christian Broda, Erwin Deutsch, Hans – Ludwig Schreiber and Hans – Jochen Vogel: Festschrift for Rudolf Wassermann for his sixtieth birthday. Luchterhand. Neuwied. 1985. pp. 109-121.
  • Social prejudice. In: Görres Gesellschaft (ed.): Staatslexikon. Volume 4. Herder Verlag, Freiburg, Basel, Vienna. 1988. pp. 1290-1293.
  • In the field of tension between religion and sexuality. Sociological remarks. In: Schwulenreferat in the general student committee of the Free University of Berlin (ed.): Homosexuality and Science [Volume] II, Verlag rosa Winkel. Berlin. 1992. pp. 141-153.
  • Morality, science and criminal law - using the example of the reasons for the homosexual paragraph in the 19th century. In: Detlev Frehsee, Gabi Löschper and Karl F. Schumann (eds.) Criminal law, social control, social discipline. West German publishing house. Opladen. 1993. pp. 258-270.
  • Eroticization of violence - problematization of sexuality. In: Martina Althoff and Sibylle Kappel (eds.): Gender relations and criminology. Criminological Journal. 5. Supplement. Juventa. Weinheim. 1995. pp. 176-191.
  • 'You stay my son!'. Homosexuals and their mothers. In: Annette Garbrecht (ed.): Mothers and sons - the longest love in the world. Ingrid Klein Vlg. Hamburg. 1995. pp. 175-187. Also at Rowohlt Taschenbuch. Vol. 60179. 1997.
  • Paradoxes of Homosexual Identity. Identity talk. In: Manfred Herzer. Selection and publisher: 100 [one hundred] years of gay movement. Documentation of a lecture series in the Academy of Arts [Berlin]. Verlag rosa Winkel. Berlin. 1998. pp. 145-156.
  • Homosexuality as an Innovation of Modernity: A Cultural-Historical Perspective. In: (Ed.): Dominican Province Teutonia: Word and Answer. Journal of Questions of Faith. Vol. 39, issue April 2nd / June. 1998. pp. 51-55
  • The modeled pedophilia scenario. In: Katharina Rutschky and Reinhard Wolff (eds.): Handbook Sexual Abuse. Rowohlt TB 60598. Reinbek. 1999. pp. 182-198.
  • No offense! Commentary on the research situation on the pink triangle in the concentration camp. Dedicated to the memory of Egbert Schmidt [...] who died of the consequences of AIDS [...]. In: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial [Hamburg]. (Ed.) Persecution of homosexuals under National Socialism. Contributions to the history of the National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany. Issue 5th edition Temmen. Bremen. 1999. pp. 104-111.
  • Punitivity as a key term for critical criminology. Co-author: Daniela Klimke. In: Rüdiger Lautmann, Daniela Klimke and Fritz Sack (eds.): Kriminologisches Journal. Punitivity. 36th year 8th booklet. Juventa. Weinheim. 2004. pp. 9-29.
  • The social dimension of sexuality - and what life science leaves of it. In: Thorsten Benkel and Fehmi Akalin (eds.): Social dimensions of sexuality. With contributions by Fehmi Akalin, Sophinette Becker, Thorsten Benkel, Hannelore Bublitz, Franz X. Eder, Svenja Flaßpöhler, Peter Fuchs, Sabine Grenz, Daniela Klimke, Karl Lenz, Sven Lewandowski, Gunter Runkel, Michael Schetsche, Renate – Berenike Schmidt and Volkmar Sigusch. Contributions to sex research. Volume 94. Psychosozial Verlag. To water. 2010. pp. 35-69.
  • General Karl von Eine (1853–1934) as a figure in contemporary history. An expertise. Status: October 12, 2010. online at LSVD (accessed: March 30, 2019). Also under the title: A homophobic war general. Karl von Eine (1853–1934). in: Rüdiger Lautmann (ed.): Caprices. Moments of gay history. [Festschrift for] Manfred Herzer on his 65th birthday. Swarm of men. Hamburg. 2014. pp. 135–155.
  • Justice - the silent violence: revisited . In: Josef Estermann (ed.): The fight for law. Actors and interests in the focus of interdisciplinary legal research. Contributions to the second congress of the German-speaking legal sociological association, Vienna 2011. Lit Verlag. Vienna. 2012. pp. 48-59.
  • Means and ways of rehabilitation and compensation. Panel discussion with Jens Dobler and Manfred Bruns. Pp. 64-69. A lifeworld in the shadow of criminalization - the homosexual paragraph as collective harm. Pp. 71-93. A retroactive repeal of constitutional laws and judgments? To the problems of state theory. Pp. 94-102. In: § 175 StGB. Rehabilitation of homosexual men convicted after 1945. Documentation of the specialist symposium on May 17, 2011 on the international day against homophobia in the ballroom of the Berlin House of Representatives and additional contributions. Ed .: Senate Department for Labor, Integration and Women. State Office for Equal Treatment - Against Discrimination. [Series of publications:] Documents of lesbian – gay emancipation [Vol.] 28. Berlin. 2012. online Berlin.de (accessed: June 18, 2019).
  • Arbitrariness in the legal garb: prosecution in the Nazi state. In: Michael Schwartz (ed.): Homosexuals in National Socialism. New research perspectives on the life situations of lesbian, gay, bi-, trans- and intersexual people 1933 to 1945. Contemporary history in conversation. Volume 18. Ed .: Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin (IfZ). De Gruyter. Oldenbourg. 2014. pp. 35–42.
  • Sexual Diversity or An End to Classifications? In Sven Lewandowski and Cornelia Koppetsch (ed.): Sexual diversity and the Un gender order. Contributions to the sociology of sexuality. Transcript. Bielefeld. 2015. pp. 29–66.
  • Approaching Georg Simmel. Together with Hanns Wienhold. Pp. 1-22; Gender balance and sexism. Together with Daniela Klimke. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-658-21427-2_8 pp. 127-144; Life in the erotic and sexual. Together with Daniela Klimke. Pp. 283-305. In: Rüdiger Lautmann and Hanns Wienhold (eds.): Georg Simmel and life in the present. Jumper. Wiesbaden. 2018
  • Halved healing of a violation of fundamental rights. How the punishments of the gay section are rehabilitated. In: Till Müller Heidelberg, Marie Pelzer, Martin Heimging, Cara Röhner, Rolf Gössner, Matthias Fahrner, Helmut Pollähne, Maria Seitz (ed.) Fundamental Rights Report 2018. On the situation of civil and human rights in Germany. Fischer TB 70189. Frankfurt a. M. 2018. pp. 22-25.
  • Queerness. Theory and Politics of Sexuality. In: Forum Wissenschaft, Vol. 35 (2018), No. 3, pp. 8–12.
  • Homosexuality and homophobia - a trajectory of late western modernism. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaften 29 (2018), No. 2, pp. 36–58.
  • Identity and emancipation: Jean Genet and the (West) German gay movement. In: Florian Mildenberger (ed.): Among men. Gift of friendship for Marita Keilson-Lauritz. Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg. Pp. 225-246. 2018.
  • Guy Hocquenghem - reread. In: Heinz-Jürgen Voss (ed.) Musicalizing the idea of ​​homosexuality: On the topicality of Guy Hocquenghem. Psychosozial Verlag. Giessen 2018. pp. 37–76.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rüdiger Lautmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Literature by and about Rüdiger Lautmann in the catalog of the German National Library
  • Private website lautmann.de (accessed: March 30, 2019).
  • Interview with the sociologist Rüdiger Lautmann: " Not just sex ". Gay ways of life follow their own rules: Stephan Hilpold in a standard conversation with the sociology professor at the University of Bremen. Listed on May 30, 2005, print edition from 21/22 May 2005 in 'Der Standard', Vienna (accessed: March 30, 2019).
  • “Die Lust am Kind - Portrait des Pedophile” and “Not Becoming a Perpetrator”: Building blocks for a social and research ethical debate by Heinz-Jürgen Voss in: Florian Mildenberger (ed.): The other faculty - theory, history, society. Hamburg: Männerschwarm Verlag, pp. 28–39. online [2015] (accessed: March 30, 2019).
  • Max Bauer in conversation with Rüdiger Lautmann: "20 years of 'registered partnership' - a long-term success". SWR2 broadcast on May 6, 2019. online (radio. Duration 7:11 minutes. Accessed: May 7, 2019).
  • SWR2 Forum: "Naturally gay - How equitable do homosexuals live?". Discussing: Christian Deker - TV journalist, NDR Hamburg, Prof. Dr. em. Rüdiger Lautmann - sociologist, Berlin, Gabriela Lünsmann - lawyer, national board of the lesbian and gay association in Germany, moderation: Sonja Striegl. Show SWR2 on June 24, 2019. online (radio. Duration 44:16 minutes. Accessed: June 25, 2019).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Advisory Board of the Humanist Union , accessed on July 10, 2016.
  2. ↑ [1] , accessed on April 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ [2] , accessed April 11, 2019.
  4. ↑ [3] , accessed on April 11, 2019.
  5. ↑ [4] , accessed on April 11, 2019.
  6. ↑ Press release September 15, 2013. September 15, 2013, accessed on June 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ [5] , accessed June 25, 2020.
  8. ↑ [6] , accessed on April 11, 2019.
  9. ↑ [7] , accessed on April 11, 2019.
  10. ↑ https://www.pedocs.de/volltexte/2015/10935/pdf/ZSE_2000_2_Achterberg_Das_Kind_Objekt_des_Begehrens.pdf
  11. ↑ News. November 15, 2014, accessed June 19, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Lautmann, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz