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")
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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
