Manfred Bruns (1934,
Linz am Rhein
Linz am Rhein (in English ''Linz on the Rhine'') is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the river Rhine near Remagen, approx. 25 km southeast of Bonn and has about ...
– 22 October 2019) was a federal prosecutor at the
Federal Court of Justice of Germany
The Federal Court of Justice (german: Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) is the highest court in the system of ordinary jurisdiction (''ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit'') in Germany, founded in 1950. It has its seat in Karlsruhe with two panels being situat ...
, and a famous German gay civil rights activist. He was until 2016 a member of the Board of Directors of the Lesbian and Gay Association (
LSVD).
He received the 2002
Magnus Hirschfeld Medal.
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1934 births
2019 deaths
German LGBT rights activists
Jurists from Rhineland-Palatinate
People from Stuttgart
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
German agnostics
German prosecutors
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