Adolf Brand

**Adolf Brand**
	German writer (1874-1945) Adolf Brand, ca. 1930
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Name in native language	Adolf Brand;
Date of birth	14 November 1874; Berlin
Date of death	2 February 1945; Berlin
Place of burial	Berlin;
Country of citizenship	Germany;
Occupation	journalist; publisher; writer; LGBTQ rights activist; photographer;
Work location	Berlin;
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English: Adolf Brand (1874-1945) was a pioneering German activist for the rights of gay men and founder of the first regularly published gay periodical, Der Eigene (1898-1932).

Deutsch: Adolf Brand (* 14. November 1874 in Berlin; † 2. Februar 1945 in Berlin-Friedrichshagen) war ein früher schwuler Aktivist und Begründer der weltweit ersten regelmäßig erscheinenden schwulen Zeitschrift, Der Eigene (1898-1932).

Portraits

Adolf Brand (1907)
Adolf Brand (1924)
Adolf Brand (ca. 1930)

Politicians outed by Brand

1904: Friedrich Dasbach, priest, Reichstag delegate, and head of the Catholic Center Party driven to suicide by exposure
1907: Bernhard von Bülow, Chancellor of Germany who successfully brought Brand to court on the charge of libel

Political cartoon on the Brand vs. Bülow libel trial (1907)

from Kladderadatsch, 27 October 1907
from Jugend, 27 October 1907

Der Eigene

Der Eigene, vol. 1 (1896), no. 1 – ten issues in this format – an anarchist journal with no gay content in this volume
Der Eigene, vol. 2 (1898), no. 1 – two issues in this format – here, opening page of a gay short story, the journal's first gay text
Der Eigene, "New Series" vol. 1 (= vol. 3, the first entirely gay volume) (1898), no. 1 – ten issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 4 (or "New Series" vol. 2) (1903), no. 1 – six issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 5 (or "New Series" vol. 3) (1905), no. 1 – six issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 6 (1906) – the only hardback issue, an annual
Der Eigene, vol. 7 (1919-20), no. 3 – eleven issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 8 (1920), no. 9 – fourteen issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 9 (1921-22-23), no. 3 – seven issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 10 (1924-25}, no. 4 – twelve issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 11 (1926), no. 1 – ten issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 12 (1929), no. 5 – five issues in this format
Der Eigene, vol. 13 (1930-32), no. 1 – nine issues in this format