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10 August 2025

Three recent books about Magnus Hirschfeld

There have been three recent books about Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft:  Rainer Herrn's  Der Liebe und dem Leid; Brandy Schillace's The Intermediaries and Daniel Brook's The Einstein of Sex.    My problem with all three books is that so many of the known trans persons who consulted Dr Hirschfeld are not even mentioned.

The best book on German trans persons in the Kaiserreich and Weimer Republic remains Herrn's previous book from 2005, so I have included it below for compatison.


Rainer Herrn.  Schnittmuster des Geschlechts: Tranvestitismus and Transsexualitat in der fruhen Sexualwissenscaft. 2005 Rainer Herrn.  Der Liebe und dem Leid: Das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft 1919-1933. 2022 Brandy Schillace. The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story,2025 Daniel Brook. The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld Visionary of Weimar Berlin. 2025
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Max Tilke  ✓ . . .
Hermann von Teschenberg  ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Karl M Baer  . . ✓ ✓
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Willi Pape  ✓ . . .
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Hertha Wind . . . .
Joseph Einsmann . . . .
Liddy Bacroft . . . .
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Oskar Gades ✓ . . .
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Michel-Marie Poulain . . . .
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous10/8/25 22:48

    "My problem with all three books is that so many of the known trans persons who consulted Dr Hirschfeld are not even mentioned."
    I don't think that's a bad thing. They want to be stealth even to the grave

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    1. Zagria11/8/25 12:48

      Apparently Putin, Starmer and Trump are going to impose stealth on all of us. Meanwhile, most of us would like to know the history of those who preceeded us. The recent discovery of the lives of Charlotte Charlaque and Hertha Wind in particular was quite exciting for German trans history. If all are in stealth, we have no history other than anonymous cases published by psychiatrists that cannot be fact-checked.

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    2. Anonymous12/8/25 15:13

      Now that you out it that way .... love your content

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  2. Ophelia6/10/25 15:30

    We of course have the same problem with Alison Li's book on Harry Benjamin.

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