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Scientific-Humanitarian Committee

First organization of a homosexual emancipation movement, founded in Germany in 1897
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Summary

Scientific-Humanitarian Committee is a LGBTQ+ organization[1]. It draws 445 Wikipedia views per month (lgbtq organization category, ranking #10 of 51).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: LGBTQ movements[3], Paragraph 175[4]
  • Member of: Cartel for the reform of sexual offence law[5]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Berlin[6]
  • Country: Germany[7]
  • Founder: Magnus Hirschfeld[8], Eduard Oberg[9], Max Spohr[10], Franz Joseph von Bülow[11]
  • Child organization or unit: Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee München[12]
  • Commons category: Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee[13]
  • Inception: May 15, 1897[14]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: January 1, 1933[15]
  • Legal form: Registered association (eingetragener Verein)[16]
  • Short name: WhK[17], CSH[18]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wiki99/LGBT+[19]

Why It Matters

Scientific-Humanitarian Committee has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 43 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Germany Magnus Hirschfeld

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  10. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [5] ↑ . lsvd.de. Retrieved . lsvd.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Germany
    Instance of → LGBTQ+ organization
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wiki99/LGBT+
    Subsidiary → —
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Gsso id: 004561, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/157140233|Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee (#157140233)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/6"
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