Ernst Burchard

Ernst Otto Burchard (9 September 1876 – 5 February 1920) was a German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate and author. Burchard, who was gay,[1] testified as an expert witness in several court cases involving prosecutions on grounds of Paragraph 175, which criminalized homosexual practices.

  1. ^ Hergemöller, Bernd-Ulrich (1999), Einführung in die Historiographie der Homosexualitäten, (Hamburg: Männerschwarm, 1998), pp. 166-167