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206:: "You, who have prepared a home for us through noble and serious diligence, and who with a proud and free forehead only strides forward with strength, you shall continue to be our guide, and we shall trust in you... Therefore, guide, show us the way to good and happiness, and build with us a strong bridge to all the world." In 1928 the gay magazine
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Fleischmann separated at the end of the 1950s at the latest. In the 1960s, Fleischmann was asked whether she would agree to an official tribute to Lotte Hahm for her support during the Nazi era. Fleischmann denied this request; her reason was that she felt abandoned. In 1967 Fleischmann died
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Immediately after the end of the war, Hahm began to become active again in 1945 together with Käthe
Reinhardt. They tried to organize lesbian balls in the "Magic Flute"; later they moved to OranienstraĂźe 162. In the same year Hahm and Reinhardt opened a bar for lesbian women near the Alexanderplatz,
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In spite of the risks involved, they started a women's group women called the "Sportclub Sonne", which was secretly the 'Violetta' lesbians' club . Until
December 1934, events took place in the Jewish Lodge House in Joachimsthaler StraĂźe 13 (today the Central Orthodox Synagogue Berlin), and after
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and was directed by Hahm until 1930. Hahm was also involved in the organization of lesbian groups, for example, she had been the leader of the women's group of the BfM since 1928 and in 1930 she called – unsuccessfully – for the foundation of a
Germany-wide "Federation for ideal women's friendship".
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there was talk of betrayal and intrigue. As justification Hahm wrote that it would have been considered "grotesque" that "a heterosexual man should be the leader of homosexual women" and on the other hand due to financial irregularities of
Bergmann. She summed up that "the time has finally come for
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By 1937 at the latest, Hahm was free again and working as a textile trader in the Berlin area, but the business was not a success, and she cheated her driver out of his wages. He sued her for fraud, and Hahm was sentenced to a fine and imprisonment. Having avoided prison, in 1939 Hahm resumed her
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She said she had been looking after a suitcase, for a person whose name she did not disclose, and when this was searched and
Communist material was found within. In the camp, Hahm joined a communist group, and presumably was tortured, but she kept silent about her experiences in the concentration
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persecution of Jewish businesses, and
Fleischmann's bars were targeted to the extent that Fleischmann has no choice but to sell her premises at a very low price . Then in 1933, by the National Socialists forbade all elements of lesbian public life with the forced closure of bars, magazines, and
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Today, Hahm is recognized for her activist work as one of the "most important activists of the homosexual subculture, especially in Berlin" and "a significant champion* for the organization of homosexual women and "transvestites" during the Weimar
Republic". Her "organizational skills, untiring
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Hahm was born in
Dresden in 1890, where she still ran a mail order bookstore in 1920. In the first half of the 1920s she came to Berlin, where she started working as a lesbian activist in 1926. Of particular importance for the city's lesbian scene was her founding of the
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the name and exact location of which is unknown. The bar existed from 1945 to 1947 for about one and a half years and was the first lesbian restaurant in East Berlin. Hahm was involved in the 1958 refoundation of the Bund fĂĽr
Menschenrecht, which failed.
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is poorly, and at times inconsistently, documented and reported. She may have first come to their attention in 1933, as a contemporary witness recounted that Hahm was arrested when she was charged by the father of a friend with seducing minors.
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observed about sixty-five women there; fifty-four women were recorded by name in the subsequent raid on 24 July, and further events of the club were prohibited. Hahm escaped the raids since she was in
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In 1929 Hahm's club Violetta united with Käthe Reinhardt's club "Monbijou", a similar sized lesbian club. In the course of this Hahm and Reinhardt changed to a larger competing organization, the
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Lotte Hahm's work was already highly appreciated in contemporary times. Already for the first anniversary of Klub Violetta two poems about her were published in
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