Ralf Dose

Ralf Dose (born 1950 in Lübeck ) is a German educationalist and LGBT activist.

life and work

Dose studied journalism, philosophy, educational science and psychology both in Göttingen and at the Free University of Berlin and graduated in 1979 with a Magister Artium.

Then Dose worked as a student assistant in the educational science institute at the Free University of Berlin, as well as in the department of higher education didactic training and advice. Finally, he also did secretarial work and was a technical assistant in pedagogy for young children. Dose was later a lecturer in sex education at the universities of Berlin and Hanover.

Since 1972, Dose has been involved in the West Berlin gay movement. In addition to Hans-Günter Klein and Manfred Herzer , he was one of the co-founders of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society . Since 1982 he has been active on a voluntary or full-time basis for the society or the research center for the history of sexology.

Dose's work focuses on researching the history of the Institute for Sexology, researching the biographies of the employees, and the organizational history of the sexual reform movement.

Dose has produced numerous publications on the homosexual movement, the history of sex science, and sexual reform.

Publications (selection)

• Dorothea Assig, Michael Baurmann , R. Dose, Horst Kirchmeier, Eckehard Kunz: Sexuality is more. A series of lessons on the subject of sexuality. Wuppertal: Jugenddienst 1976. 2nd edition 1979; License issue pedagogical work center Dortmund 1977 (= teaching units. Workbooks for youth education work, booklet 7)
• Offers of the department of higher education didactic training and advice. Slideshow; FU Berlin SS 1979
• Video recordings in practice-integrated teacher training. Berlin (West): Volker Spieß 1980 (at the same time master thesis FU Berlin)
• Social learning in science lessons. Video teaching documentation for the non-profit community comprehensive school. Berlin (West) 1981
• Manfred Baumgardt , R. Dose, Manfred Herzer, Hans-Günter Klein: Magnus Hirschfeld - life and work. Exhibition catalog. Berlin (West): Verlag rosa Winkel 1985. 2., Erw. Hamburg edition: von Bockel 1992
• R. Dose, Gesa Lindemann , Annette Wenzel (Red.): For a new Berlin Institute for Sexology. A memorandum, ed. from the Magnus Hirschfeld Society. Berlin (West): edition sigma 1987
• The implementation of chemical-hormonal contraception in the Federal Republic of Germany. Berlin Science Center for Social Research 1989 (P 89-204) (= series of publications by the research group on health risks and prevention policy)
• Magnus Hirschfeld as a doctor. In: Ulrich Gooßb, Herbert Geschwind (ed.): Homosexuality and health. Berlin 1989, pp. 75-98.
• Inventory of Iwan Bloch / Robert Bloch. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Society 1993
• With Rainer Herrn : The Institute for Sexology in Berlin 1919–1933. A documentation. (p. V.)
• With Raimund Wolfert : "The blow hit him hard too". Felix Abraham (1901-1937). In: Lambda-Nachrichten 2016 (vol. 38), No. 167, pp. 33–35.
• An Unwelcome Gift - Dr. Hans Holbein and the Holbein Foundation. In: Mitteilungen der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft (2016) 55/56, pp. 11–30
• With Raimund Wolfert: Short biography of Felix Abraham (1901–1937). On: http://www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/biografie/8009
• "It was a long time since there was a so-called bourgeois life for him." Dr. med. Felix Abraham - Fragments of a Life. In: Mitteilungen der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft (2016) 54, pp. 9–23
• With Raimund Wolfert: Weissensee cemetery plan: In the footsteps of Magnus Hirschfeld [folding plan]. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Society 2017
• Ralf Dose, Hans Bergemann, Marita Keilson-Lauritz (Eds.): Magnus Hirschfeld's Exile Guest Book 1933-1935. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin Leipzig, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95565-338-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ /me.in-berlin.de