Rudolf Klimmer

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Rudolf Klimmer (born May 17, 1905 in Dresden ; † July 26, 1977 in Wuppertal ) was a German doctor and sex researcher who played an important role in the GDR movement , especially in the homosexual movement .

Born the son of the veterinarian and professor Martin Klimmer , Rudolf graduated from high school in 1925 at Dresden's Annengymnasium . Then he studied medicine at the University of Leipzig . In 1926 he joined the KPD and broke with his parents' house. In 1930 he received his doctorate with a thesis on medical examination of the moral crimes against children . He was then trained as a neurologist , but dismissed in the course of the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, which is why he worked as a ship doctor for the Hamburg-America Line (on the Tacoma to the west coast of the USA and on the Leverkusen to East Asia). Back in Germany, he continued his specialist training in 1934, the unpaid assistant doctor position at the Halle University Neurological Clinic was quickly followed by an assistant doctor at the Dresden-Löbtau City Hospital . He completed the specialist examination in 1935 and then wanted to report again as a ship's doctor, but with consideration for his partner Karl Hausmann, he decided not to do so. From 1936 Klimmer worked as a senior physician at the Bethel psychiatric institution near Bielefeld. Klimmer was sentenced twice by the Nazi judiciary for offenses under Section 175 , in 1938 to five months and in 1941 to one year in prison. In addition, Klimmer was banned from practicing his profession: on March 23, 1939, the German Medical Court excluded him for five years from “any further treatment in public welfare”. From 1941 to 1945 he worked in medical research at Schering AG .

In the summer of 1945 he opened a neurosurgery practice in Dresden- Löbtau . In 1950 he became chief physician of the nerve department in the local polyclinic . Klimmer stood up for the rebuilding of the GDR and became a member of the SED . In 1947 he submitted an application to the SED leadership in Saxony to delete Section 175. The Central Committee of the SED in Berlin rejected the initiative. In 1953 he proposed an expert talk about homosexuality, in 1954 he asked Walter Ulbricht to examine the question, which he did not answer. Klimmer received no printing permission for Die Homosexualität as a biological-sociological question of time , which is why he published this book in Hamburg. His 1959 letter to Kurt Hager was equally unsuccessful. The writer Ludwig Renn was hidden behind his view that homosexuality is a natural disposition . When Section 175 was reformed in 1968, it was more based on Kurt Freund's theories . But Klimmer achieved that the new § 151 did not provide for a minimum penalty and that a suspended sentence was possible.

Klimmer died on a trip to the west with relatives in Wuppertal.

Fonts

  • Homosexuality as a biological-sociological question of time , Hamburg 1965

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klimmer's biography at rosa-winkel.de , accessed on April 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Klimmer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and sex researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1977
Place of death Wuppertal