Homosexuality in Germany

Portraits: German-speaking countries / Ritratti: Area germanica / Portraits: nations germanophones

• This is a subsection of the gallery at homosexuality.

1800-1899 ca.

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  Swiss writer and earliest homosexual activist Heinrich Hössli (1784-1864) as a young man. Early 19th century miniature.
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  Heinrich Hössli (1784-1864) - drawing by Caspar Mueller, undated, but circa 1833.
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  Heinrich Hössli (1784-1864) in his late age.
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  The only extant picture of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895) - L'unica foto che possediamo di Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895).
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  Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-1895)
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  Karl Heinrich Urlich's cataloguing of "Uranism". From John Addington Symonds' 1891 book A Problem in Modern Ethicsìì (this edition 1896).
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  Karl Maria Kertbeny (1824-1882) in his youth, around 1845/50.
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  Felicita von Vestvali, the famous German opera singer, c. 1855
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  Károly Mária Kertbeny (1824-1882), a.k.a. Karl-Maria Kertbeny (Benkert), 1850/60 - Károly Mária Kertbeny (1824-1882), o Karl-Maria Benkert, 1850/60.
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  Friedrich Alfred Krupp (1854-1902) in 1900. Krupp committed suicide after a homosexual scandal in Capri, Italy.
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  Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931) in 1891 (self-portrait). For a gallery of his male nude pictures, see Wilhelm von Gloeden.
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  Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931) before 1910. From magazine Varietas n. 75, july 1910, p. 401.
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  Wilhelm von Gloeden's self-portrait from his grave.
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  Wilhelm von Gloeden's last portrait.
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  Photographer Wilhelm von Plüschow (1852-1930) portrayed by his cousin Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856-1931) (circa 1890).
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  Plüschow portrayed by Gloeden (circa 1890). For a gallery of Plüschow's male nude pictures, see: Wilhelm von Plüschow.
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  Anita Augspurg (1857-1943)
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  Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857-1915): selfportrait in 1882.
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  Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857-1915) around 1885.
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  Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857-1915): selfportrait in 1894.
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  Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857-1915): selfportrait in 1894.
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  Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857-1915) in Capri, 1898.
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  Friedrich Heinrich Prinz von Preußen
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  Karl Friedrich Alexander von Württemberg
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  Baron Hermann von Teschenberg (1866-1911) in female dress.
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  Baron Hermann von Teschenberg (1866-1911) in male clothes.
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  Katharine Cornell (1893-1974)

1900-1933

1907 - The Eulenburg affair / Lo scandalo Eulenburg

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  "Guglielmo in Grecia", "L’Asino", 1907.
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  "All’hotel Guglielmo II" - "L’Asino", 20.10.1907.
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  "Confessioni" - "L’Asino", 17.11.1907.
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  "Il dovere del soldato in Germania" - L’Asino, 17.11.1907.
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  "Auguste lamentazioni" - "L’Asino, 12.01.1908.
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  VI. "Non fornicare" - "L’Asino", 23.02.1908. More images are More images here archive copy at the Wayback Machine.

other 1900-1933

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  Frontispice of the issue #1 (1896) of the first homosexual periodical in the world, "Der Eigene" published by Adolf Brand.
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  Cover of 1906 issue of "Der Eigene".
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  Alfred Redl (1864-1913) was blackmailed into becoming a spy for being gay, which gave rise to a huge scandal.
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  Stefan George (1868–1933) in 1910. Picture by Jacob Hilsdorf.
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  Stefan George (1868–1933) in 1910. Picture by Jacob Hilsdorf.
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  Stefan George (1868–1933) in 1910. Picture by Jacob Hilsdorf.
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  Haarmann's accomplice, and former lover, Hans Grans.
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  Ernst Röhm

1933-1945 Nazis and the "Gay holocaust" / Nazisme et "holocauste homosexuel" / Nazismo ed "omocausto" )

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  The mark used by Nazis for gay people. See also: Nazi concentration camp badges.
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  Mark for a Jewisk "pink triangle"
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  The "Homomonument" in Amsterdam.
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  Magnus Hirschfeld
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  Memorial to Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld and his Institute for Sex Research, Berlin Tiergarten
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  Monument in Berlin, Nollendorfplatz.
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  Invalidated OdF identity card: The Magistrate of East Berlin refused any pink-triangle prisoner the right to receive a pension as a "victim of fascism"
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  Rudolf Brazda (26 June 1913 – 3 August 2011)
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  Gertrude Sandmann

1945-1999

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  Popsinger Klaus Nomi.
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  Film maker de:Frank Ripploh in 1986.

2000-....

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  Eva Rieger in 2010
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  Openly "out" German politician Klaus Wowereit, former mayor of Berlin.
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  Openly "out" singer Peter Plate (left) sings for German group Rosenstolz.
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  Openly "out" Green politician Volker Beck.
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  Openly "out" Green politician Volker Beck in 2005.
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  Openly "out" singer Ross Antony, Ex-Member from the German group Bro'Sis
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  ColognePride 2015
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  CSD Munich 2016

§ 175

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  Chart of prosecutions under § 175 in years 1902-1987
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