Richard Grune postcard
Richard Grune was born on 2nd August 1903 in Flensburg in northern Germany.
Little is known about this photograph other than that it was taken in Berlin in 1926, evidently in a photographic studio. Nonetheless, as with the case of Richard Grune on the postcard, it hints at the relative tolerance of the German capital in the 1920s where, despite the existence of punitive laws, at least some gay men felt that they did not have to hide their sexuality.
photo © Schwules Museum, Berlin/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum