Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute of Sex Research, Institute for Sexology or Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The Institute was headed by the physician Magnus Hirschfeld. Since 1897 he had run the en:Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee ("Scientific-Humanitarian Committee")

The burning of the library outside the institute was on may 6th, rather than may 10th, but selected materials were trucked to the may 10 burning^[1]^[2]

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Students of the Deutsche Studentenschaft, organized by the Nazi party, parade in front of the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin on May 6, 1933.
On May 10, 1933, Nazis in Berlin burned works of Jewish authors, and the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, and other works considered "un-German".
Memorial to Magnus Hirschfeld and his Institute for Sex Research, Berlin Tiergarten, 2005
A uniformed member of the Nazi SA and a student of the Academy of Physical Exercise examine materials plundered from the library of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, director of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin on May 6, 1933
Institute for Sexual Science's Director Magnus Hirschfeld (center), and his partner, Chinese expatriot Tao Lee (right). with Assistant Director Bermard Schapiro (left), circa 1922.

↑ While some materials were burned immediately on the street outside the Institute, others were loaded onto trucks and carted away for sorting. Some were torched at the ceremonial book burning on Berlin's Opera Square on May 10, but selected valuable antiquarian books and periodicals were actually sold abroad, including some that were purchased by Hirschfeld himself, since he aimed to establish a new Institute in exile in Paris. The public library of the Institute comprised approximately 10,000 mostly rare German and foreign books on the topics of sex and gender. (Manfred Baumgardt, Schwules Museum Berlin).
↑ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

[1] While some materials were burned immediately on the street outside the Institute, others were loaded onto trucks and carted away for sorting. Some were torched at the ceremonial book burning on Berlin's Opera Square on May 10, but selected valuable antiquarian books and periodicals were actually sold abroad, including some that were purchased by Hirschfeld himself, since he aimed to establish a new Institute in exile in Paris. The public library of the Institute comprised approximately 10,000 mostly rare German and foreign books on the topics of sex and gender. (Manfred Baumgardt, Schwules Museum Berlin).

[2] ttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

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