Max Weber (7.6.1885 Hamm/Westphalia – unknown)

Max Weber, who was from Hamm in Westphalia, lived in the Rumfordstraße in Munich’s Isarvorstadt at the beginning of the 1930s, where there were several homosexual bars, such as the Schwarzfischer inn in the Dultstraße. He was arrested in July 1931 after he had met the 20-year-old Ernst Zipperer at the Stachus and been discovered having intimate relations with him in a dark courtyard entrance. At the time, at the end of the Weimar Republic, sexual contact did not yet fulfill the offense of § 175 ‘Reichsstrafgesetzbuch’ (German Penal Code), since at that time, it only penalized “coitus-like acts”. However, Weber had to answer charges of being a public nuisance. He was also then placed on the ‘pink list,’ the police index of homosexuals.

This was his undoing when a major raid on homosexuals was carried out in Munich during the night of October 20-21, 1934. Weber was arrested again and, a few days later, sent to the Dachau Concentration Camp, where he was imprisoned for more than three years, until January 22, 1938. His further life has yet to be researched.