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"Milieu: Gay Berlin" - an exploration of LGBT+ identities in the Weimar Republic (1920's Germany).
Based on "Gay Berlin" by Robert Beachy.
Did you know the roaring 20s have *always* been queer, both 100 years ago and now?
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Note: I didn't have enough space to cover Dr. Magnus Hirschfield properly but he will be the subject of my next infographic. Dr. Hirschfield was a gay Jewish doctor and activist who created the first medical institute (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft) for LGBT+ people. He pioneered transgender care!
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thinking about her (Magnus Hirschfeld's „Institut für Sexualwissenschaften” [institute for sexual sciences])
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Rudolf Berthold (Part 3)
Disclaimer: Now starts a part of German (and European) history that is highly controversial. The period shortly before the end of the war and the years afterwards were a mess of revolutions, fighting, terrorism and murder. Opinions of how good/bad it was depend on political/ideological convictions.
For the sake of keeping it short, I will simplify and only mention events that are necessary to tell Bertholds story.
During the last month of the war Berthold still had hope that he will be able to return to the front: “I want to go back out to the frontlines! If only I had my healthy bones – but I can still do it. As long as the battle rages everyone with experience belongs out there.” But his health was too unstable for even his iron will to make a return possible. He returned to his home and waited. For what he wasn´t sure.
In November the situation at the front and in Germany worsened and Marine troops started mutinies. Revolutions broke out, inspired by the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Berthold was a fervent monarchist and held on to his Kaiser and the established social order. “Overthrow! Constitutional change! In a few days, what strong men have built up over centuries will be destroyed. The people have been seduced. Doubts are cast on the army. We're still far in enemy territory and we're supposed to surrender? Madness!”. Bertholds opinion on all that was happening is clear.
After the Armistice in November a semi-civil war broke out in the bigger German cities. Communists, Socialists, Bolsheviks on the left; Nationalists and Monarchists on the right; Social Democrats in the middle. Mix in some Anarchists and foreign agents and the disaster was perfect. The soldiers returning from the front were being pursued by all sides to join. By many they were not treated well, their uniforms were ripped and they were called to throw down their weapons and join the fight against militarism. But many soldiers were still loyal to the emperor and did not want to accept the looming Republic.
Especially at the end of 1918 to early 1919 the communists were very powerful. The left-wing Spartakus movement tried to overthrow the government in Berlin and took over Munich. Separatists in Western Germany called for independence of the Rhineland.
Berthold spend the rest of 1918 depressed at home. He felt angry, devastated and useless but he stayed true to his convictions: “The oath of allegiance I once swore I keep for life. A life that now lies so dark before me!”. But his mood and his perspectives changed when more and more Freikorps units (mostly right-wing paramilitary units, used by the Social Democratic government to defend itself and suppress the communist/Bolshevik uprisings) were established. He saw that there was still fight in some men.
The newly formed Reichswehr (official military of the new German state) offered the Hauptmann an active duty posting at Döberitz Airfield. He soon was back in uniform, training men. His charisma and leadership ability enabled him to even get along with the Worker´s and Soldier´s Councils (that caused a lot of trouble in other places). But shortly after, Berthold was ordered to close the Airfield and dismiss his men. Berthold worried that the ever rising number of unemployment would drive the men towards the Spartakus and similar movements.
When Munich, capital of Bertholds home region, was taken over by Communists in April 1919 and proclaimed a “soviel republic”, several Freikorps from all over of the country came to free it. For Berthold this was a turning point. He saw a purpose again. He now saw an opportunity to keep fighting for his country. He put out a call for young men to join him and form their own Freikorps. Soon he had gathered around 1,200 men for his “Eiserne Schar Berthold”. He trained the mostly very young farmers boys and in August they answered the call to go to the Baltics to fight the Bolsheviks there.
Berthold and his men travelled to Mitau, Lithuania to join with the Eiserne Division (Iron Division). There, Germans and anti-Bolshevik Russian were fighting the Red Army side by side. But also local troops that wanted complete independence and both Germans and Russians out of their country. It was a brutal fight from all sides. Bertholds right hand was still paralyzed, he was not able to join in the active fighting but he rallied and motivated his men with great success. They came into the suburbs of Riga but then it was over. Pressure from the German government to cease fighting and return home as well as strong resistance made it impossible to keep fighting. The Freikorps did not get any new supplies, be it food or weapons; something that even Bertholds iron will and dedication could not substitute.
Starving and their numbers greatly decimated Berthold and his group returned to Germany in December 1919. There it was demanded that the Eiserne Schar be disbanded. Bertold did not agree to this, knowing that there was nothing waiting for him or his loyal fighters. They were ordered to report to several different locations, finally ending up in Harburg (near Hamburg), which was governed by Independent Socialists. During this time a military-backed putsch (“Kapp-Putsch”) to overthrow the Government in Berlin was about to be carried out, with support of Lieutenant-Commander Hermann Erhardt, with a Freikorps of his own.
Berthold was accused of wanting to come to its support and ordered to give up his weapons. Harburg officals ordered the officers of the Reichswehr stationed in the town to be arrested. Tensions rose and Berthold met with town representatives who promised safe accommodations and later on transportation for his troops. He and his men went to make camp in the local school.
Local union trade leaders demanded of the Reichswehr soldiers to subdue Berthold but they were ordered to stay out of it. The trade leaders then called for their workers to take up arms against the Eiserne Schar Berthold. The men in the school readied their weapons, including machine guns, to defend themselves against the advancing lynch mob. A fight broke out (it is unclear who fired the first shot). Bertholds men were outnumbered and being fired at from all sides. Many died inside the school. After a while a cease fire was called. Berthold managed to come to an agreement with the local authorities: His men were to give up their arms and then be allowed to leave the city unharmed. But that deal was broken the second a disarmed Berthold and his men stepped out of the school. Some local sympathizers warned Berthold that he will be attacked and should try to sneak out on his own but he refused to leave his men. That was his doom. The men were attacked from all sides the second they stepped out of the school and soon lost sight of their leader. Shortly after one of the attackers called out tauntingly: “There lies your great leader”. The men of the Eiserne Schar Berthold looked towards a street corner where an unrecognizable body lay in the gutter.
Autopsy results:
The captain's blue tunic was completely torn open. There were severe scratch wounds to the neck. Terrible piston blows had shattered the entire top of his skull. Seven shots in the head, left and right chest shots, all from behind. The spine was completely separated.
Bibliography:
Iron Man – Rudolf Berthold: Germany´s indomitable fighter ace of World War I, Peter Kilduff
Kamerad Berthold, Thor Goote
Rudolf Berthold, Ludwig F. Gengler (this book consists mainly of Bertholds diary)
Die Geächteten, Ernst von Salomon
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“Der Kampf mit dem Drachen der Not [Fighting the Dragon of Poverty / Destitution],” Simplicissimus. Vol. 37, issue 15, July 10, 1932.
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Die Lanze der Verordnung sticht doch nur den Drachen leider nicht.
[Unfortunately, the lance of decree just doesn't pierce the dragon.]
A somewhat heroic St. George-ish Franz Von Papen tries to lance the dragon afflicting Germany with poverty, need, economic distress, and destitution, but the lance of ‘government decree’ kills only the victim, not the cause. Of course, one of the odd feelings reading old issues of Simplicissimus is that though we know von Papen as one of the gravediggers of German democracy, he is generally presented in these pages as a totally normal politician dealing with not so normal situation.
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I can't find the paper/research/book I want to read online 😔 girl there's no way for me to go to a library in Düsseldorf im on the other side of the earth
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administration building of the regionalverband ruhr // essen südviertel
architect: alfred fischer
completion: 1929
the administration building, which was renovated a few years ago, is a successful example of new construction in the ruhr region. the mixture of new objectivity and expressionism creates a complex that is still modern in its design today.
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more oldmas/fem oc ehehehe (This is George/Agness)
(I was trying to revive some of my 20s oc and end up just redoing everything)
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Streik!
#Streik! Über die Anfänge der Arbeiterbewegung und erste Arbeitskämpfe in #Lingen, (Stadtarchiv-Reihe Archivalie des Monats)
Streik! Lingens Stadtarchivar Dr. Mirko Crabus berichtet auf der Website des Stadtarchivs über die mühsamen Anfänge der Arbeitskämpfe in Lingen:
“Im Zuge der Industrialisierung nutzten die Arbeiter zunehmend Streiks als Mittel, ihren Forderungen Nachdruck zu verleihen. Bald entstanden die ersten Gewerkschaften. Bekämpft wurden sie von den Unternehmern, aber auch vom Staat, der immer wieder…
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Haus der Weimarer Republik, Theaterplatz Weimar
Internationaler Wettbewerb 2017
Entwurf: Klaus E. Krauss, Berlin und Rolf Kursawe, HKR+ Architekten, Köln
Städtebau
Der Entwurf orientiert sich am Workshop-Ergebnis von 2015.
Ausgehend von der damaligen Variante „Wohnen“ halten wir
hofartige Bebauungen östlich des ehemaligen Zeughauses für ein
adäquate Antwort auf die vorhandenen Umgebungsstrukturen.
Jedoch halten wir es für notwendig, die neuen Baukörper weniger
schematisch sondern eher individuell auf die vorhandenen
erhaltenen Einzelbauwerke reagieren zu lassen.
Wir sehen es als unabdingbar, statt der „aufgelösten“ Struktur des
Workshop-Ergebnisses eher die Struktur der Altstadt weiterzubauen
und raumbildende Baukörper vorzusehen; nur so lässt sich die hohe
Qualität des öffentlichen Raumes in der Altstadt auch an dieser
Stelle we
iterführen.
Architektur
Die Öffnung des derzeit bestehenden Eingangs zu einer
„arkadenartigen“ Loggia ermöglicht einen spannenden
Gegenpart zum Nationaltheater und dem Denkmal von
Schiller und Goethe, aber auch einen angemessenen Zugang
zum Haus der Weimarer Republik.
Das neu entstehende Foyer verzahnt als lichtdurchfluteter
Raum die unterschiedlichen Ebenen von Ausstellungsräumen
und Multifunktionsraum mit Garderobe und Nebenräumen;
gleichzeitig entsteht ein lebendiger Bereich für alle Besucher.
Die noch vorhandenen Außenmauern des Zeughauses
werden bewusst als eigene Zeitschicht erhalten und
umrahmen einen „eingestellten“ verglasten Neubau, der so
auch alle schwierigen Anschlusspunkte zwischen Alt und Neu
konsequent vermeidet.
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max beckmann / ernst thoms
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heute habe ich gelernt, dass in den 1930er-Jahren 80% aller deutschen Männer (12,5 Zigaretten pro Tag) und zwanzig Prozent aller Frauen (7,2 Zigaretten pro Tag) rauchten
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