GDR Museum Pforzheim

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The GDR Museum Pforzheim was established in 1998.

history

Klaus Knabe († 2012), who went west with his wife shortly before the Wall was built in 1961 , collected everyday objects and other GDR objects such as boundary stones, prison doors and Stasi odor preserves from the time before 1990 in an attic until the city of Pforzheim made the former kindergarten of the French garrison available to him. Together with several friends and scientists, he developed a concept that aims to convey a comprehensive picture of the East German state. A historical overview of the post-war period and 40 years of GDR history were added and also provided with objects, so that one gets an almost complete insight into this time in southwest Germany.

The museum is supported by the association “Gegen das Vergessen eV”, which with its volunteers, especially contemporary witnesses, provides the basis for the work, especially guided tours for school classes. At the suggestion of the initiator Klaus Knabe, the foundation “Lernort Demokratie” was set up in 2012, which in turn is funded by the nationwide foundation “ Against Forgetting - For Democracy ”.

Exhibition elements

ground floor

  • Geography of the GDR
  • Starting point: collapse and destruction of the German Reich
  • GDR history with a special focus on the 1950s and the peaceful revolution
  • Everyday life (objects, medals, devices, house books, preschool carriages, etc.)
  • West German poster collection on the GDR

1st floor

  • Berlin: Wall and demarcation around the western sectors
  • Border installations
  • Stasi room (including many files on display)
  • Youth: from kindergarten through pioneering days to FDJ
  • Sport and media
  • the two revolutionary movements in 1953 and 1989/90

basement, cellar

  • Prison doors from various prisons in the GDR
  • Interrogation room
  • Prison cell
  • “Stories from contemporary witnesses” who worked in the museum

The entire house is provided with slogans from the GDR, e.g. B. “To learn from the Soviet Union means to learn to win” etc. as well as banners (flags) from “socialist competitions”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Working group of museums on the former inner-German border: Grenzmuseen. Mödlareuth 2010, p. 48

Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 40.6 "  N , 8 ° 43 ′ 24.6"  E