Dora Richter

Richter was born as the second child of seven to a poor farming family on 16 April 1892. At the age of 6, she apparently tried to remove her penis with a tourniquet. In 1909, after a baker apprenticeship, she left her small town and moved to a bigger one, where she continued to dress as a girl in her free time. == Surgeries ==

In 1922, Richter underwent an orchiectomy, From May 1923, In 1931, , a psychiatrist working at the institute, published a paper about Richter's (and Toni Ebel's) gender confirming surgeries as a case study in the : "Her castration had the effect – albeit not very extensive – of making her body become fuller, restricting her beard growth, making visible the first signs of breast development, and giving the pelvic fat pad... a more feminine shape." == Later years ==

In late 1931, Richter was working as a chef at Restaurant Kempinski (modern Hotel Bristol) at Kurfürstendamm 27. In May 1933, with growing Nazi influence in Germany (Hirschfeld had fled the country), a mob of students attacked the institute, and the state authorities then burned its records. Richter's fate after this incident remained unknown for many years, and researchers assumed that she had died during the attack. Her employer was listed as Berta Kolitsch, who traded in bobbin lace. Richter lived in Ryžovna until 1946. With the forcible expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia in 1946, she moved to Allersberg, Bavaria, where she lived until her death at the age of 74 on 26 April 1966. == In popular culture ==

Richter was portrayed by German actor in the 1999 German film The Einstein of Sex, a biopic about Magnus Hirschfeld directed by Rosa von Praunheim. == See also ==