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

* 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

* 1990 Herman Musaph (Netherlands) * 1992 Imre Aszódi (Hungary) * 1994 Ruth K. Westheimer ("Dr. Ruth"; USA) * 1997 Maj-Briht Bergström-Walan (Sweden) * 2000

Oswalt Kolle Oswalt Kolle (2 October 1928, in Kiel – 24 September 2010, in AmsterdamOswalt K ...

(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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