Karl Lange

:"For the German aerospace engineer, see Karl Otto Lange"

Karl Lange (born October 28, 1915, Hamburg, Germany) was the son of an American father and a German mother, who was imprisoned by the Nazis for the then crime of homosexuality. [Citation
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In 1935, when Lange was twenty years old, an informer told the police that he had been having secret meetings with a fifteen-year-old youth, and he was arrested under the criminal code's paragraph 175, which defined homosexuality as an unnatural act. He was released after fifteen months but re-arrested in 1937 and imprisoned at Fuhlsbüttel prison, and then transferred to Waldheim prison in Saxony, where he suffered a nervous breakdown.

After the war, Lange was hired at a bank in Hamburg, but was fired after eighteen months when his employer learned of his paragraph 175 convictions.

ee also

*Karl Gorath
*History of gays during the Holocaust

References

External links

* [http://www.pink-triangle.org/ptps/lange.html Karl Lange]
* [http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/hsx/id_7264.php One Person's Story]