Rüdiger Lautmann

Rüdiger Lautmann (born 22 December 1935) is a German professor of sociology and a LGBT scholar in Germany.

[1] His 1994 book, Die Lust am Kind, is often touted by pro-pedophile activists;[2] he has since distanced himself from this book in response to public criticism in Germany.

[2] Born in Koblenz, Lautmann lived during his childhood in Düsseldorf, where he went to school.

Lautmann worked after university studies first in Münster and then in Bielefeld (for Niklas Luhmann).

There he leads the Institut für Sicherheits- und Präventionsforschung.