Richard Linsert

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Richard Linsert

Richard Linsert (born November 17, 1899 , † February 3, 1933 in Berlin ) was a German publicist and sexologist .

Life

Linsert grew up in Munich and completed a commercial apprenticeship there. He became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). He was also politically active in the Red Front Fighters League and in the secret intelligence service of the KPD ( AM apparatus ). In Munich he met Kurt Hiller know who gave him a job as an assistant secretary in the Scientific Humanitarian Committee with Magnus Hirschfeld mediated. From 1926 he was secretary of the Scientific and Humanitarian Committee. He became an expert in sexology topics and wrote on counter-proposal to the draft Penal Code of 1927. In December 1929 left Linsert the Scientific Humanitarian Committee and founded with doctors Max Hodann , Bernd Götz and the lawyer Fritz Flato the Archive for Sexology , but which hardly achieved great importance. Nevertheless, in 1929 and 1930 he wrote books on contraception and aphrodisiacs together with Magnus Hirschfeld . In 1929 he also published an anthology on male prostitution. In 1931 Linsert published a monograph Kabale und Liebe . His partner was Peter Limann , the second secretary of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee. Linsert died in Berlin in February 1933 of a delayed pneumonia.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hirschfeld in Berlin: Richard Linsert
  2. ↑ Bernd Kaufmann u. a .: The KPD's intelligence service 1919–1937. Dietz, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-320-01817-7 , p. 227 (fn. 166).
  3. ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller : Man for man. Biographical Lexicon . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39766-4 , pp. 471f.
  4. ↑ Bodo Mende: The anti-homosexual legislation in the Weimar Republic , in: History of § 175. Criminal law against homosexuals. Catalog for the exhibition in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main . Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-921495-46-6 , pp. 82-104
  5. ↑ Manfred Herzer , Magnus Hirschfeld. Life and work of a Jewish, gay and socialist sexologist . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / M., New York 1992
  6. ↑ Richard Linsert: Paragraph 297, 3 "Fornication between men". New German publishing house, Berlin 1929
  7. ↑ Kurt Hiller : Life against Time. Volume 2: Eros. Autobiography , ed. by Horst HW Müller. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg. 1973, p. 107f., 113
personal data
SURNAME Linsert, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist and sexologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1899
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1933
Place of death Berlin