Karl M. Baer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl M. Baer

Deutsch-israelischer Schriftsteller und Zionist

Date of Birth: 20-May-1885

Place of Birth: Bad Arolsen, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 26-Jun-1956

Profession: physician writer, novelist, social worker, suffragist

Nationality: Germany, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Karl M.
Baer (20 May 1885 – 26 June 1956) was a German-Israeli author, social worker, reformer, suffragist and Zionist.
Assigned female at birth and named Martha Baer, he became, in December 1906, one of the first people to undergo sex-change surgery, and one of the first, in January 1907, to gain full legal recognition of his gender identity and to have a new birth certificate issued reflecting his new gender.
Baer wrote notes for sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld on his experiences growing up as a girl while feeling inside that he was male.
Together they developed these notes into the semi-fictional, semi-autobiographical Aus eines Mannes Mädchenjahren (Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years) (1907) which was published under the pseudonym N.O.
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Baer also gained the right to marry and did so in October 1907.