LGBT studies: How the Nazis destroyed the work of Magnus Hirschfeld

He has been called the "Einstein of sex." Magnus Hirschfeld. The renowned German sex researcher was not only a scientist and founder of the "Institute for Sexology", but also committed to LGBT rights. Hirschfeld invented the word transvestite and also helped heterosexual couples to have a better sex life.
Born in 1868, Hirschfeld studied philosophy and philology in Breslau (now Poland) and later medicine in Strasbourg, Munich, Heidelberg and Berlin.
After a trip to the United States, with stops in New York and Chicago, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee in Berlin in 1897. This was the first LGBT rights organization in the world. Shortly after World War I, in 1919, Hirschfeld founded the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin.
Even before the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Hirschfeld had already left the country. He did not have to witness how his institute was looted and his life's work destroyed.
Hirschfeld died of a heart attack in 1935 while in exile in Nice, France.
His idea of sexual research in the LGBT field as well as some works from his extensive collection survived, however.
The Magnus Hirschfeld Society has existed in Berlin since 1982. More: http://www.magnus-hirschfeld.de/start...
In 1994, the Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexual Science was established at the renowned Robert Koch Institute, which has continued at Humboldt University Berlin since 2001. More: https://www.ub.hu-berlin.de/de/litera...
A Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation, established in June 2007, was named in his and Fannyann Eddy's honor. This is to express that the struggle for the human rights of sexual minorities began in Europe, but today takes place on all continents. More: http://www.hirschfeld-eddy-stiftung.de/
In 2011, the German government established the Federal Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation to help reduce discrimination against homosexual and transgender people. More: https://mh-stiftung.de/