Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag
The memorial in front of the Reichstag in 2010
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Detail of the memorial
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Detail of the memorial
The Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag is a memorial in Berlin, Germany. The memorial is located in front of the Reichstag building and commemorates the 96 members of the parliament who died unnaturally between 1933 and 1945 (1948). The idea of creating the monument started in the 1980s, and the memorial was erected in September 1992. It was designed by Dieter Appelt, Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Justus Müller, and Christian Zwirner. The memorial is made of 96 cast iron plates, with the names, birth and death dates and places engraved on the edges. It has been designed so that it can be extended if new names are discovered in the future.[1]
Commemorated people[]
Name | Birth | Death | Place of death | Political party |
---|---|---|---|---|
Julius Adler | 1894 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD |
Hans Adlhoch | 1884 | 1945 | Munich, before death march | BVP |
Eduard Alexander | 1881 | 1945 | Transport to KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD |
1868 | 1939 | , Poland, assassinated | DVP | |
Elise Augustat | 1889 | 1940 | KZ Ravensbrück | KPD |
Bernhard Bästlein | 1894 | 1944 | KPD | |
1905 | 1938 | Burgos, Spain, murdered | KPD | |
1876 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD | |
1881 | 1933 | Found dead near Recklinghausen | SPD | |
1901 | 1943 | KPD | ||
1882 | 1945 | KZ Mauthausen | Zentrum | |
Clara Bohm-Schuch | 1879 | 1936 | Women's prison in Berlin, Barnimstraße | SPD |
Eugen Bolz | 1881 | 1945 | Zentrum | |
Rudolf Breitscheid | 1874 | 1944 | KZ Buchenwald | SPD |
1882 | 1945 | KZ Sachsenhausen | SPD | |
1881 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD | |
1886 | 1933 | KZ Esterwegen | SPD | |
1878 | 1943 | KPD | ||
Helene Fleischer | 1899 | 1941 | Stadtroda | KPD |
1894 | 1933 | Police headquarters, Recklinghausen | KPD | |
1890 | 1933 | District court prison, Günzburg | SPD | |
1885 | 1944 | KZ Buchenwald | Zentrum | |
1888 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | SPD | |
1890 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD | |
1879 | 1941 | DBP | ||
1879 | 1944 | DDP | ||
Ernst Heilmann | 1881 | 1940 | KZ Buchenwald | SPD |
1895 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD | |
1885 | 1945 | KZ Mauthausen | BVP | |
1903 | 1934 | KZ Dachau | KPD | |
1892 | 1934 | Prison Neumünster | KPD | |
1882 | 1945 | Shot by SS in Weimar | KPD | |
Rudolf Hilferding | 1877 | 1941 | Gefängnis Paris La-Sante | SPD |
1862 | 1942 | KZ Theresienstadt | SPD | |
1899 | 1939 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD | |
Friedrich Husemann | 1873 | 1935 | KZ Esterwegen | SPD |
1907 | 1933 | KZ Reichenbach | KPD | |
Heinrich Jasper | 1875 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | SPD |
1890 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD | |
1898 | 1934 | KZ Fuhlsbüttel | KPD | |
1879 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD | |
Albert Kayser | 1898 | 1944 | KZ Buchenwald | KPD |
Franziska Kessel | 1906 | 1934 | Zuchthaus Mainz | KPD |
1887 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD | |
1888 | 1942 | Berlin, Spätfolgen des KZ Lichtenburg | SPD | |
1896 | 1941 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD | |
Julius Leber | 1891 | 1945 | SPD | |
Paul Lejeune-Jung | 1882 | 1944 | CHR.N.A | |
Richard Lipinski | 1867 | 1936 | Bennewitz | SPD |
Karl Mache | 1882 | 1934 | KZ Kislau | SPD[2] |
1895 | 1943 | Prison Brandenburg-Görden | KPD | |
Ludwig Marum | 1882 | 1934 | KZ Kislau | SPD |
Stefan Meier | 1889 | 1944 | KZ Mauthausen | SPD |
August Merges | 1870 | 1945 | Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel prison | SPD[3][4] |
1878 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD | |
1868 | 1942 | KZ Theresienstadt | SPD | |
1890 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD | |
1890 | 1945 | Brandenburg-Görden prison | KPD | |
1889 | 1945 | Sonnenburg prison | SPD | |
1875 | 1945 | Roslau | SPD | |
1883 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD | |
1896 | 1933 | Berlin-Moabit prison | KPD | |
Siegfried Rädel | 1893 | 1943 | KPD | |
1893 | 1944 | KZ Sonnenburg | KPD | |
Walter Reek | 1878 | 1933 | Danzig prison | SPD |
Ernst Reinke | 1891 | 1943 | KZ Flossenbürg | KPD |
1881 | 1945 | Neustädter Bucht, transportation to KZ Neuengamme | SPD | |
1882 | 1945 | KZ Sachsenhausen | Zentrum | |
Julius Rosemann | 1878 | 1933 | Hamm police jail | SPD |
1896 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD | |
John Schehr | 1896 | 1934 | Schäferberg/Kilometerberg: shot "escaping" | KPD |
1880 | 1939 | KZ Sachsenhausen | SPD | |
Ernst Schneller | 1890 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD |
Ernst Schneppenhorst | 1881 | 1945 | SPD | |
Werner Scholem | 1895 | 1940 | KZ Buchenwald | KPD |
1886 | 1945 | Detention in Dresden | KPD | |
1897 | 1933 | Murdered in Königsberg by the SA | KPD | |
Hugo Sinzheimer | 1875 | 1945 | Overveen Gemeente Bloemendaal (Niederlande) | SPD |
1897 | 1945 | Brandenburg-Görden prison | KPD | |
Fritz Soldmann | 1878 | 1945 | KZ Buchenwald | SPD |
Robert Stamm | 1900 | 1937 | prison | KPD |
Johannes Stelling | 1877 | 1933 | District court prison, Berlin-Köpenick | SPD |
1900 | 1933 | KZ Dachau | KPD | |
Walter Stöcker | 1891 | 1939 | KZ Buchenwald | USPD, KPD |
1884 | 1945 | KZ Ravensbrück | DVP | |
1887 | 1944 | KZ Neuengamme | SPD | |
1889 | 1944 | Oldenburg, Haftfolgen Wölfenbüttel prison | SPD | |
Johanna Tesch | 1875 | 1945 | KZ Ravensbrück | SPD |
Ernst Thälmann | 1886 | 1944 | KZ Buchenwald | KPD |
1891 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD | |
1901 | 1944 | KZ Mauthausen | KPD | |
1882 | 1945 | prison | SPD | |
1876 | 1944 | Murdered in Berlin | SPD | |
1889 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | USPD | |
Georg Wendt | 1889 | 1948 | Berlin, before Brandenburg prison | SPD |
Lotte Zinke | 1891 | 1944 | KZ Ravensbrück | KPD |
References[]
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- ^ "Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag". Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ Mache starb nach den Angaben bei Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): M.d.R. Die Reichstagsabgeordneten der Weimarer Republik in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Politische Verfolgung, Emigration und Ausbürgerung 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-7700-5162-9, S. 381, 1944 im .
- ^ Die Angabe „Braunschweig Zuchthaus Wolfenbüttel“ ist irreführend bzw. falsch. August Merges verstarb nicht im , sondern nach der Entlassung zuhause in Braunschweig an den Spätfolgen der in der Haft erlittenen Misshandlungen durch die Gestapo.
- ^ Gerhard Schildt, In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches biographisches Lexikon. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8, S. 410
Coordinates: 52°31′05″N 13°22′29″E / 52.51798°N 13.37462°E
Categories:
- 1992 establishments in Germany
- Cultural infrastructure completed in 1992
- 1930s in Berlin
- 1940s in Berlin
- Cast-iron sculptures
- Monuments and memorials to the victims of Nazism in Berlin
- Reichstag building