Rainer Hoffschildt

Rainer Hoffschildt 2007

Rainer Hoffschildt (born June 9, 1948 in Güstrow ) is a gay activist , historical researcher and author who focuses on the persecution of homosexuals during the Nazi era .

Life

Stumbling block for Kurt Rampoldt, Strielstraße 2 in Hannover-Mitte (Rainer Hoffschildt contributed biographical information )

Rainer Hoffschildt (far right) during a general meeting of VEHN eV

After his childhood in Hoppenrade / Lüdershagen in the Soviet occupation zone and his escape from the GDR , he initially lived in Lübeck .

In 1969 he passed his Abitur at the old grammar school in Flensburg and later studied economics at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . He worked in Hanover until his retirement.

Since 1978 he has been involved in the Hannover Homosexuality Action Group (HSH), which still exists today with a different composition and objectives.

In 1991 the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior appointed him to the Lower Saxony Hardship Fund for aid to those persecuted by the Nazi regime in special emergencies .

Hoffschildt became known in 1992 for his book Olivia , in which he documents the history of homosexuals in Hanover. He is the initiator of the "Association for Research into the History of Homosexuals in Lower Saxony" (VEHN, see web links) and oversees the Hanover Gay and Lesbian Archive (SARCH), which documents the fate of thousands of persecuted homosexual men during the Nazi era. These documents have contributed to the setting of stumbling blocks for gays in several cities .

From the SARCH, Rainer Hoffschildt developed the central recording of gay discrimination according to case groups and different regions and countries, from which the ZEH documents were created (see publications ).

Rainer Hoffschildt has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Lower Saxony Memorial Foundation since 2005 .

Hoffschildt regularly contributes biographical data for the laying of stumbling blocks, especially for victims of homosexual persecution by the National Socialists , for example for the Hanover branch of the Ecumenical Working Group on Homosexuals and Churches (HuK).

Honors

Certificate for the State Prize for Local Research 2018

• In 2012, Rainer Hoffschildt was honored with the LSVD award from the LSVD Niedersachsen-Bremen “for special commitment in the lesbian and gay area”.
• On November 22, 2018, Rainer Hoffschildt, together with Werner Biggel, Ralf Bogen, William Schaefer and Claudia Weinschenk , was awarded the First Prize of the State Prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Art and the Baden-Württemberg State Committee for Home Care awarded for local research .

Publications

Statistics of persecution according to § 175 in the FRG; Post-war period until 1994;
Rainer Hoffschildt, December 2016

• ZEH document (= Central Registration of Gay Discrimination ), Hefte 1 ff., 1987 ( gray literature )
• Unique under the pseudonym Rudolf Schildt: "The end of a career. Removal of the official assistant Ulrichs from the civil service because of unnatural lust ". In: Capri. Journal for gay history (Berlin), No. 6, 4/1988, pp. 24–33, ISSN  1431-8024
• Olivia. The hitherto secret history of the taboo homosexuality and the persecution of homosexuals in Hanover . Association for research into the history of homosexuals in Lower Saxony, Hanover 1992, self-published, ISBN 3-9802909-0-5
• The persecution of homosexuals in the Nazi era - numbers and fates from northern Germany . Rosa Winkel, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86149-096-X
• Together with George L. Mosse , Claudia Schoppmann , Katharina Kaiser, Klaus Müller, Frank Wagner, Thomas Rahe : Project to record the names of homosexuals persecuted in the Nazi regime . In: Commemorate the homosexual victims of National Socialism, Heinrich Böll Foundation , Berlin 1999, pp. 105–111. ISBN 3-927760-36-6
• In: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (ed.), Persecution of Homosexuals under National Socialism . Contributions to the history of the National Socialist persecution in Northern Germany , Edition Temmen, Bremen 1999, ISBN 3-86108-738-3
  • together with Thomas Rahe: Homosexual prisoners in the concentration camp - the example of Bergen-Belsen . Pp. 48-61.
  • Statistical data on homosexual prisoners in Celle prison 1938-1945 . Ibid., Pp. 70-76.
• "After the liberation back in custody." The alliance resistance fighter Paul Hahn , in: Joachim Müller , Andreas Sternweiler : Homosexual men in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , published by the Schwules Museum Berlin, Berlin, Verlag rosa Winkel, 2000, ISBN 3-86149-097- 8 , pp. 354-358
• " Rosa-Winkel prisoners in Mauthausen concentration camp. (PDF; 154 kB)" In: Lambda Nachrichten. Journal of the Homosexual Initiative Vienna , June 2001, pp. 38–41. ZDB ID 1081954-x
• Homosexual prisoners , in: Detlef Creydt (Hrsg.): Forced labor for industry and armaments in Hils 1943 - 1945 , Volume 4 in the series Zwangsarbeit ... , Holzminden: Mitzkat, 2001, ISBN 3-931656-37-3 , p. 157-163
• 140,000 convictions according to "§ 175" . In: Fachverband Homosexualität und Geschichte (Ed.), Invertito Volume 4: Denounced, persecuted, murdered: Homosexual men and women in the Nazi era , pp. 140–149. Male swarm script , Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-935596-14-6
• Schwullesbisches Archiv Hannover (SARCH) , in: Invertito , Yearbook for the History of Homosexualities , MännerschwarmSkript Verlag GmbH, Hamburg, 8th year 2006, pp. 190–192, ISBN 978-3-939542-00-1
• Eduard Oberg , co-founder of the “Scientific-Humanitarian Committee” (1858–1919) , in Jens Dobler (Red.): Mitteilungen der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft , No. 37/38, 2007, pp. 93–103
• Arthur Wese. Death in prison in Celle , in: Sabine Maehnert , Joachim Piper (editor), Anne Riege (editor) and others. a .: Stumbling blocks: Searching for traces in Celle , Celle: Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Celle, 2008, ISBN 978-3-925902-66-6 , pp. 77–80
• beaten to death - hushed up. Persecution of Magdeburg homosexuals during the Nazi era , in: Karin Grünwald, Karlheinz Kärgling, Steffen Lemme, Carola Lipaczewski, Wolfgang Winkelmann (ed.): Unwanted. Tracked. Murdered. Exclusion and Terror during the National Socialist dictatorship in Magdeburg 1933–1945 , in the series Magdeburger Museumschriften , No. 11, ed. by Matthias Puhle, book accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg from January 28 to August 3, 2008, Magdeburg: Magdeburger Museen, 2008, ISBN 3-930030-93-4 , pp. 281–293
• " Preventive detention " as an instrument for the persecution of homosexual men , in: Contributions to the History of National Socialist Persecution in Northern Germany , Vol. 11 Excluded. "Asocials" and "criminals" in the National Socialist camp system . Editor: Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial , Edition Temmen, Bremen 2009, pp. 76–83, ISBN 978-3-8378-4005-6
• "K. was temporarily arrested on suspicion of homosexual activity. ”/ Homosexual men in the files of the Secret State Police Osnabrück , 2009
• The persecution of homosexuals , in: Clemens Heinrichs (Hrsg.): Gedenkhalle Oberhausen . A - pure - no urban society. Oberhausen under National Socialism 1933 - 1945 , ed. on behalf of the city of Oberhausen, Oberhausen 2012: Verlag Karl Maria Laufen, ISBN 978-3-87468-285-5 , pp. 73-88
• J. Heinrich Dencker (1860–1921), activist from the very beginning , in Jens Dobler (Red.): Mitteilungen der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft , No. 50/51, 2014, pp. 92–95
• Albert Knoll , Rainer Hoffschildt: Die deaths , in: Der Rosa-Winkel-Gedenkstein. The memory of the homosexuals in the Dachau concentration camp (= Splitter , vol. 13), publisher: Forum Homosexualität München eV, Lesbians and Gays in History and Culture , Munich, 2015 ISBN 978-3-935227-19-3 , p. 88 -114
• Statistics on the criminalization and persecution of homosexual acts among men by the judiciary and the police in the Federal Republic of Germany from the post-war period to 1994 , Hanover, 2016
• Homosexuality under National Socialism - Friedrich Schwarz, 1943 , in Richard Borek (Ed.): Germany Archive. Third Reich documents (loose-leaf collection), Braunschweig: Archiv Verlag, 2017, sheet 00417
• Thomas Rahe , Rainer Hoffschildt: Homosexuals in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , 1st edition, Celle: Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation, 2019, ISBN 978-3-946991-08-3 and ISBN 3-946991-08-4

Exhibitions (incomplete)

• 2010: On the history of homosexuals in the Mittelweser area: Emancipation and persecution of homosexual men from the 19th century to the Nazi era , City Hall Nienburg , as part of the events for the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz , organized by the Memorial Working Group (City of Nienburg, Evangelical Church District, Heinrich -Albert-Oppermann-Gesellschaft, Round Table Against Racism and Right-Wing Violence, Kulturwerk Nienburg, Association Against Forgetting - for Democracy, Albert Reichwein Association and Lower Saxony Eastern Society)
• 2009: and it is still moving ... The history of the gay movement in Hanover from then until now , event in the series "Mittendrin und Mithaben" in connection with the exhibition in the Hanover Historical Museum
• 1992: Oliva. The hitherto secret history of the taboo homosexuality and the persecution of homosexuals in Hanover , exhibition from May 11 to June 6, 1992 in the Volkshochschule Hanover , Theodor-Lessing-Platz 1, as well as the supporting program in Nieschlagstrasse 26 and in the pavilion , organized by the association on the history of homosexuals in Lower Saxony eV, funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs , the Lower Saxony Ministry for Federal and European Affairs and the Hanover Adult Education Center

literature

• Michael Neugebauer (photos), Katharina Sieckmann (text): Rainer Hoffschildt (born 1948) , in: Zwischenzeit. Memories of life on a leash , catalog for the exhibition of the same name in the Historical Museum Hanover from April 26 to July 28, 2013, ed. by Julia Berlit-Jackstien and Karljosef Kreter in the series Writings on Memory Culture Hannover , Volume 5, on behalf of the State Capital Hannover, Department of Education and Qualification, Project Memory Culture, Hannover: Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung Hannover, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7752-6204 -0 , pp. 92-95

Films (selection)

• Persecution of homosexuals: Wolfenbüttel memorial publishes book about §175 , contribution in thetelevision magazine 17:30 Sat.1 Regional for Lower Saxony and Bremen from January 18, 2019broadcastby the television station Sat1

Web links

Commons : Photos by and with Rainer Hoffschildt as well as donated documents  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Texts and graphics created by Rainer Hoffschildt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• NN : Gay history & gay archive in Hanover: VEHN - SARCH - ZEH on the page hukhannover.de , of the association HuK Hanover eV ( homosexuals and church Hanover)
• Jens-Christian Wagner (responsible): Organization / Foundation Advisory Board on the website of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation
• Literature by and about Rainer Hoffschildt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rainer Hoffschildt for the region of today's Baden-Württemberg on the page der-liebe-wegen.org :
  • Statistics on persecution of homosexual men by lawmakers, judiciary and police
  • et al. : Commemorative card with numerous places of residence and biographies of § 175 victims

Individual evidence

1. ↑ High school diploma, dated May 20, 1969, still with the old stamp “Altes Gymnasium Flensburg, Staatl. High school for boys "
2. ↑ Compare, for example, Rainer Hoffschildt: Name project / Stolpersteine ​​/ Stolperstein for Kurt Rampoldt  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. [undated, 2007?], last accessed October 8, 2013.  
3. ↑ Compare this photo with Rainer Hoffschildt and the certificate.
4. ↑ o. V .: Award of the 37th State Prize for Local Research , Article on the page mwk.baden-wuerttemberg.de from November 22, 2018
5. ↑ Data according to the poster for the exhibition in the Rainer Hoffschildt Collection