The Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld (BMH) takes part in the transparent civil society initiative. As participants, we commit to using a set format to disclose the goals of our organization, where our funds come from, how they are used and who decides on them. We make this information available online in a clearly structured and easy-to-find ten-point scheme.
The following information refers to the year 2024 (as of: 31.03.24 unless stated otherwise in the subheading).
The 2023 activity report was published in autumn 2024.
1. Name, registered office, address and year established
Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld
Mohrenstraße 34
D-10117 Berlin
Year established: 2011
2. Articles of Association and basic information
3. Information on tax privileges
The Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld Magnus Hirschfeld is classified as a non-profit organization by the Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin in its decision dated 05.05.2023: It serves exclusively and directly tax-privileged charitable purposes within the meaning of Sections 51 et seq. of the German Fiscal Code (AO) and is one of the corporations designated in Section 5 (1) No. 9 of the German Corporation Tax Act (KStG).
4. Name and roles of the main decision-makers
5. Reports on activity
6. Personnel structure
In 2024, the foundation has 12 employees, nine of whom are permanent staff.
Full-time employees:
- Helmut Metzner, Managing Director
- Sibylle Meister, Management Assistant and Project Funding Management
- Christine Welack, Assistant for General Administration, Bookkeeping, Finances and Budget
- Manuela Meubauer, Employee Secretariat/Administration
- Hannah Zipfel, Scientific Department Culture, History and Remembrance
- Charlotte von Schuckmann, Scientific Officer Society, Participation and Anti-Discrimination
- Dr. Matti Seithe, Scientific Officer for Media Relations and Event Management as well as the Society, Participation and Anti-Discrimination Department
Student assistants and mini-jobs:
- Esther Buntfuß, student assistant
- Benjamin Welack, student assistant
On this, see too:
7. Source of funds
- Assets
- Principles of asset management
- see also “Investment” in the 2023 Activity Report
8. Use of funds
- Information on the Foundation’s own projects: Departments of the BMH, projects of the BMH
- Information on the external project sponsorship of the Foundation
- see also “The Foundation Year 2023 at a Glance” in the 2023 Activity Report
- see also “Investment” in the 2023 Activity Report
9. Company law affiliation with third parties
9. Company law affiliation with third parties
These are, for example, Bundesverband Trans*; Dachverband Lesben und Alter; DFL Stiftung; Deutsche Fußball Liga (DFL); Deutscher Fußball Bund e.V. (DFB); Fachverband Homosexualität und Geschichte e.V. (FHG); FFBIZ – Das Feministische Archiv; Förderkreis der Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld e.V.; Forschungsstelle Archiv für Sexualwissenschaft an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU); Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Fachgebiet Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Personalmanagement und Organisation (Prof. Regine Graml); Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin; Intergeschlechtliche Menschen e.V., Institut für Zeitgeschichte München-Berlin (IfZ); JungLesbenZentrum Hamburg; KBZ – Kombi – Kommunikation und Bildung e. V.; Koordinierungsstelle zur Gleichstellung von LGBTIQ*, Stadt München; Landesstelle für Gleichberechtigung – gegen Diskriminierung der Senatsverwaltung für Soziales, Arbeit, Gleichstellung, Integration, Vielfalt und Antidiskriminierung (LADS), Berlin; Lesben- und Schwulenverband in Deutschland e.V. (LSVD); LesMigraS; Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.; Ministerium für Integration, Familie, Kinder, Jugend und Frauen des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz; Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg; Netzwerk LSBTTIQ Baden-Württemberg; Rad und Tat e. V. (RuT); RosaLinde Leipzig e.V.; Quarteera e.V.; Queere Bildung e.V.; Queer European Asylum Netzwerk; Queer Football Fanclubs e.V. (QFF); QueerNet Rheinland-Pfalz e.V.; SchwuZ; Siegessäule; Special Media SDL GmbH; Spinnboden Lesbenarchiv und Bibliothek Berlin e.V.; Stiftung Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas; TakeOver. Verein für intersektionale Kampagnenarbeit; TransInterQueer e.V.; Universität Stuttgart, Historisches Institut, und Forschungsstelle Ludwigsburg; Universität Vechta, Institut für Soziale Arbeit, Bildungs- und Sportwissenschaften (ISBS), Challenges – Arbeitsstelle für sportpsychologische Beratung und Betreuung von Prof. Dr. Martin Schweer; Verbund der Regenbogenstiftungen; Verein der Freund*innen eines Elberskirchen-Hirschfeld-Hauses (E2H) _ Queeres Kulturhaus in Berlin; Verein Niedersächsischer Bildungsinitiativen e.V.; Wallstein Verlag GmbH, Göttingen; Weißenburg – Schwul/Lesbisches Zentrum Stuttgart; Women in Exile; Projektgruppe „Gedenkband Josch Hoenes“; LAG Queeres Netzwerk Sachsen e.V.; Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff-Stiftung; Politiken der Reproduktion interdisziplinäre Nachwuchsforscher*innengruppe (PRiNa); Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen; Stephanie Krah, Dresden; Sonja Lau, Berlin; HAKI e.V., Kiel; Dr. Dr. Gregor Schorberger; Weissenburg e.V., Stuttgart; Wer lebt mit wem? Warum? Und wie? e.V.i.G, Leipzig.
Thank you very much for the trustworthy cooperation.
10. Donations, sponsorship, third-party funding and endowments (2023)
The work of the BMH was supported in 2023 with earmarked donations and sponsorships worth over 1,000 euros by (in alphabetical order):
- PENNY Markt GmbH (REWE GROUP): 30,000 euros (plus taxes), project use: Football for Diversity, license agreement in the context of the article “Douceur Zipfelmensch”
- Individual donor: 1,500 euros for the project “Refugees and Queers” (refugee project)
Further donations of less than 1,000 euros were received in the BMH donation account in 2023.
Third-party funding to the Foundation in 2023:
- Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ): up to 706,000.00 euros in institutional funding. Funding period: January 1st – December 31st, 2023
- Federal Republic of Germany (German Bundestag): 50,000 euros (plus taxes) for project: Exhibition “Persecution of Sexual Minorities/Queer People under National Socialism”, in the Paul Löbe House from November 29, 2023 – December 15, 2023
- Federal Office of Administration, Stuttgart (federal grant from funds of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM) and the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency (ADS): 100,000 euros as fixed-amount funding, for project: traveling exhibition “Queer People in National Socialism”, in the Paul Löbe House. Funding period: May 10, 2023 – December 31, 2023
- State of Berlin, Senate Department for Justice, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination: 22,000.00 euros for the project Bisexual Living Environments in Berlin. Video interviews on biographical stories. Funding period 01.01. – 31.12.2023
There were no donations to the assets in the 2023 financial year.