Gemeinschaft der Eigenen

The Gemeinschaft der Eigenen ("Community of Free Spirits") was a German homosexual advocacy group led by anarchist Adolf Brand. The group opposed the country's preeminent advocacy group, Magnus Hirschfeld's Scientific-Humanitarian Committee.^[1]

Founding members

In 1903, founding members were German writer Benedict Friedlaender German nobleman Wilhelm Jansen (founder of organisation Jung-Wandervogel), the German painter Fidus, the German writer Peter Hille, the German composer Richard Meienreis, the German writer Paul Brandt, the German writer Walter Heinrich, the German writer Reiffegg, the Netherlandse painter and physician Lucien von Römer, the German writer Hanns Fuchs and Martha Marquardt.^[2]