The Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld (BMH) takes part in the transparent civil society initiative. Its participants undertake to disclose according to a particular format what goals their organisation pursues, where their funding comes from, how it is used and who decides on this. They provide this information in a clearly structured and easily accessible manner according to the following ten-point scheme on the Internet.
The following information refers to the year 2024 (as of: 31.03.24 unless stated otherwise in the subheading).
The 2022 activity report was published in autumn 2023.
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 was classified as charitable by the Tax Office for Corporations I Berlin with its decision of 05.05.2023: the Foundation serves exclusively and directly tax-privileged charitable purposes in the meaning of Sections 51 ff German Tax Code and is one of the corporations designated in Section 5 (1) no. 9 Corporation Tax Act (KStG).
4. Name and roles of the main decision-makers
5. Reports on activity
6. Personnel structure
In 2024, 14 employees work at the Foundation, of whom nine are full-time.
Full-time employees:
- Helmut Metzner, Managing Director
- Karoline Punke, Management Assistant and Project Sponsorship Management
- Christine Welack, Assistant for General Administration, Bookkeeping, Finances and Budget
- Manuela Meubauer, Employee Secretariat/Administration
- Hannah Zipfel, Department Culture, History and Remembrance
- Charlotte von Schuckmann, Advisor, Department Society, Participation and Antidiscrimination
- Dr Matti Seithe, Academic Advisor for Media Work and Event Management and Academic Advisor, Department Society, Participation and Antidiscrimination
Student assistants and mini-jobs:
- Esther Buntfuß, student assistant
- Paul Seyfarth, student assistant
- Hendrik Bruhn, student assistant
- Benjamin Welack, student assistant
On this, see too:
7. Source of funds
- Assets
- Principles of asset management
- see too “Investment” in the 2022 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 too “Overview of the 2022 foundation year” in the 2022 Activity Report
- see too “Investment” in the 2022 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. Contributions, sponsoring, third-party sponsorships and donations (2022)
In 2022, the work of the BMH was supported with earmarked contributions and sponsoring worth over 1,000 euros by (in alphabetical order):
- Booking.com: 100,000.00 euros for ‘Football for Diversity Hirschfeld’.
- Förderkreis der Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld e.V. (FBMH), Berlin: 5,918.33 euros to finance a mini-job
- Carsten Schatz: 5,000.00 euros for contemporary witness archive
Other contributions under 1,000 euros were made to the contribution account of BMH in 2022.
Third-party sponsorships of the Foundation in 2022:
- The Federal Ministry of Justice: up to 706,000.00 euros as institutional sponsorship. Sponsorship period: 01.01. – 31.12.2022
- State of Berlin – Zukunft im Zentrum GmbH: 22.000,00 Euro for project ‘Lebenswelten von Trans*Personen in Berlin. Lebensgeschichtliche Videointerviews, LSBTI-Projekte im Rahmen des Archivs der anderen Erinnerung.’ Sponsorship period: 01.01. – 31.12.2022
There were no donations to the assets in the 2022 financial year.