On this side I describe chronologically the pursuit of homosexual generally, and during the Nazi regime in the special.
Because it, however, with such an important matter like this particularly on correct data depends I will look "long and thoroughly". This list will increase constantly.
You find them a listing and description of the corners the concentration camp prisoners had to carry:
Date |
Description |
4. century |
Since the fourth century homosexuality with the death was punished in almost all Christian states. |
1787 |
Austria lifts the capital punishment for homosexuality. |
1794 |
Prussia lifts the capital punishment for homosexual. |
19. century |
The Concept Homosexuality originated only in the 19th century. Before homosexuality was called with women and with men, as well as sex with animals, "lewdness against the nature" or "buggery".
Because one looked at homosexuality also as an illness, one often sent homosexual in lunatic asylums - to cure them "". |
1851 |
Prussian Criminal Code contains text later §175 in §143 . |
1869 |
The concept Homosexuality was introduced by the Hungarian doctor Kertbeny. |
1897 |
The first homosexual union of the world originates: Magnus Hirschfeld
founds in 1897 the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-Humanitäre Komitee - WHK). The priority aim of the WHK was the abolition of the section 175 which was brought into force in 1871. |
1909 |
Draught for a new criminal law contains increase §175 and expansion on lesbian women. |
1922 |
Foundation "alliance for human right". (homosexual civil right organisation) |
1923 |
The first homosexual demonstration takes place, with the demand for the abolition of the section 175. (Place and organizer, unfortunately not known) |
1929 |
The penal Committee on Legal Affairs of the Reichstag is right for a cancelation §175 is right. §175 does not reach on grounds of the national-socialist virulent campaigns against deer field and his movement any more to the treatment in the parliament. |
Februar/März 1933 |
For the first time homosexuals were delivered to concentration camp camp. The Concentration-Camp_Corners of the prisoners. |
März 1933 |
All homosexual organisations are forbidden. |
20. März 1933 |
Foundation of the concentration camp - concentration camp Dachau. |
24. Oktober 1934 |
Heinrich Himmler instructs all German police stations to make a »list of all people who have been known as homosexuals«. |
30.Juni.1934 |
Seriously Röhm is arrested and executed. |
26. Juni 1935 |
The law to the castration from homosexual men is realised. |
1936 |
Confidential "imperial headquarters to the fight of the homosexuality and the abortion" founded. Raids and mass arrest of homosexual. |
15. November 1941 |
Hitler arranges the capital punishment for homosexual HJ, policemen and SS-Soldiers. |
1944 |
Human attempts to homosexual in the concentration camp Buchenwald. |
8. Mai 1945 |
The war is official to an end. This also meant the end of the concentration camps. |
1948 |
The American biologist Alfred C. Kinsey publishes the results of his research in his work "The sexual behaviour of the man". |
1949 |
The German Government maintained (Anti-Homosexual)_Law §175 in NS form. |
10. Mai 1957 |
The German Federal Constitutional Court classifies §175 in the version of 1935 as »proper come about«. |
1959 |
The pursuit of homosexual - in Germany (BRD) - reaches the climax. |
1968 |
The DDR (East-Germany) reforms §175. |
28. Juni 1969 |
On the 28th of June, 1969 a crude police raid takes place in the gay's bar "Stonewall Inn" in Christopher Street in New York, as well as nearly daily in the homosexual bars America. However, on this day begin the "soft homos" who had never defended themselves up to now against the police infringements to offer resistance. It comes to a "revolution". the news of the opposition spreads in the surroundings, a street battle originates in which 500 people take part. Though this "battle" lasted merely only 45, but it was enough around the ice to break: Gays and lesbians are not any more the helpless victims. Still in the same year gay's groups and lesbian groups form in the whole country. Shortly after also in andeen countries of the world. To the memory of the events in the Christopher-Street demonstrations take place since 1970 annually in June / July for the equal rights of homosexual people - the Christopher-Street-Day. |
1969 |
BRD reforms § 175. |
1970 |
In New York Gay Liberation Front is founded - who serves till this day worldwide as a model for many gay-lesbian civil right groups. Since the nineties they have become the biggest civil right movement. |
1971 |
The gay Berliner (Movie)-Director Rose von Praunheim brings the film "Not the homosexual is perverted, but the situation in which he lives" in the cinemas. Shortly after the film originate different lesbian-gay action groups. |
1974 |
The US psychiatrist's union strokes homosexuality from the official list of the illnesses. |
1977 |
Harvey Milk is chosen as the first open gay living person in a political office - it becomes a town council in San Francisco. |
1977 |
In completely America go out into the streets in June, 1977 more than half a million people to the CSD (Christopher-Street-Day). |
27. November 1978 |
Superintendent (district mayor) Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone are shot by ex-superintendent Dan White in their office. Dan White is condemned for this double murder to "7 1/2" years. He tried to justify his action with the consumption of Junk-Food. |
1980 |
A new and puzzling form of illness is discovered. An illness which concerns exclusively gay men. |
1982 |
The first Gay Games I I are delivered in San Francisco. 1600 sportsmen took part from all over the world in it. |
1984 |
The first KZ with a stone tablet in memory of the Rose's Winkel prisoners is put up in KZ-Mauthausen. It follow: New narrow nurse, Dachau, Sachsenhausen. |
1985 |
In Berlin the "Schwule Museum" is founded. |
1986 |
The Gay Games II are held in San Francisco with 3500 athletes. |
1987 |
In Amsterdam a homo's monument - three different ground sculptures is established - in memory of the suppression of the homosexual victims of the Nazis. |
1989 |
In Denmark the first Homo-Marriage is put down. |
1989 |
At three different places of Germany stones tablet are established for the homosexual victims of the Nazi regime. |
1990 |
Im August 1990 are organised Gay Games III in Vancouver with 9500 participants. |
1992 |
The World Health Organization WHO extinguishes homosexuality from the list of the illnesses. |
1993 |
Samesex-Partnerships legalises in: Norway |
1994 |
11000 participants come to Gay Games IV in New York. |
1994 |
Samesex-Partnerships legalises in: Sweden |
1994 |
Germany abolishes §175 on the 11th of June. |
1996 |
Samesex-Partnerships legalises in: Greenland |
1996 |
Samesex-Partnerships legalises in: Island |
1997 |
Samesex-Partnerships legalises in: Netherlands |
1998 |
The Gay Games V take place 1998 in November in Sydney. |
1999 |
Samesex-Partnerships legalises in: France |
2000 |
England adapts the protective age for homosexual contacts: 16 years. |
2001 |
Samesex-Partnerships legalises in: Gemany |
2001 |
From August, 2001 gays and lesbians in Germany can enter a registered partnership. The CDU/CSU-Party goes against it before the Federal Constitutional Court. In 2002 they fail with it. |
2001 |
Samesex-Partnerships legalises in: Portugal |
2001 |
200 homosexual marry in Mexiko |
1. April 2001 |
The first valid marriage ceremonies of homo's pairs "before the registry office" are carried out on the 1st of April with a ceremonious ceremony in Amsterdam. At the same time the matrimonial law also comes into force in the Netherlands. |
Juni 2001 |
The first Homosexual-Parade in Jerusalem. Motto "love without borders". |
30. Juni 2001 |
The first Homosexual-Parade in Belgrad . |
2002 |
According to International Amnesty (Germany) Saddam Hussein introduces the capital punishment for homosexuality again. |
2002 |
In Greenland the first lesbian and gay organisation founded is 2002. |
2002 |
Samesex-Partnerships legalises in: Finland |
2002 |
Swedish homosexual receive unlimited adoption right. |
14. August 2002 |
Finally, in Austria the government expires of the Anti-Homosexual-Law Paragraph 209. This section had intended a different protective age for homo and heterosexual contacts. Now he becomes substituted by a spare regulation, the section 207. However, this offers furthermore elbowroom for discrimination. |
2002 |
The Federal Constitutional Court confirms the legality of the registered partnership for gays and lesbians in a judgment. |