The Magnus Hirschfeld Medal is awarded by the
German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research (DGSS) for outstanding service to
sexual science, granted in the categories "Sexual Research" and "Sexual Reform". It is named in honour of German
sexology pioneer
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a German physician and sexologist.
Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology and medicine. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific-Humanitarian Com ...
(without the DGSS sharing his dated 'biologistic' sexual theory).
Winners for contributions to sexual research
![Milton Diamond](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Milton_Diamond.jpg)
* 1990
Ernest Borneman Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (12 April 1915 – 4 June 1995), also known by his self-chosen anglicisation Ernest Borneman, was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, psychoanalyst, sexologist, communist agitat ...
(Austria)
* 1992
John P. De Cecco (USA)
* 1994
Liu Dalin (China)
* 1997
Jonathan Ned Katz
Jonathan Ned Katz (born 1938) is an American historian of human sexuality who has focused on same-sex attraction and changes in the social organization of sexuality over time. His works focus on the idea, rooted in social constructionism, that t ...
(USA)
* 2000
Milton Diamond
Milton Diamond (born March 6, 1934) is an American Professor Emeritus of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. After a career in the study of human sexuality, Diamond retired from the university in December 20 ...
(USA)
* 2002
John Money
John William Money (8 July 1921 – 7 July 2006) was a New Zealand psychologist, sexologist and author known for his research into sexual identity and Sex determination and differentiation (human), biology of gender. He was one of the first ...
(USA)
* 2004
Martin S. Weinberg (USA)
* 2006
Richard Green (USA/UK)
* 2008 Hu Peicheng (China)
* 2016 João Décio Ferreira (Portugal)
Winners for contributions to sexual reform
![RuthWestheimer-a](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/RuthWestheimer-a.jpg)
* 1990
Herman Musaph (Netherlands)
* 1992 Imre Aszódi (Hungary)
* 1994
Ruth K. Westheimer ("Dr. Ruth"; USA)
* 1997
Maj-Briht Bergström-Walan (Sweden)
* 2000
(Netherlands)
* 2002
Manfred Bruns
Manfred Bruns (1934, Linz am Rhein – 22 October 2019) was a federal prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice of Germany
The Federal Court of Justice (german: Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) is the highest court in the system of ordinary jurisdic ...
(Germany) and
William Granzig (USA)
* 2004
Rolf Gindorf (Germany)
* 2006
Rita Süssmuth
Rita Süssmuth ( ''née'' Kickuth; ; born 17 February 1937) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She served as the 10th President of the Bundestag.
From 1985 to 1988, she served as Federal Minister for Youth, Family ...
(Germany)
* 2008
Robert T. Francoeur
Robert Thomas "Bob" Francoeur Ph.D., A.C.S. (October 18, 1931 – October 15, 2012) was an American biologist and sexologist.
Life and career
Francoeur was born on October 18, 1931, in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a B.A. in philosophy and Engl ...
(USA)
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