Cenotaph for the fallen of the anti-aircraft cartillery
The memorial for the fallen from the anti-aircraft cartillery is located in Berlin and has been in the Steglitz cemetery in Bergstrasse, Department D IV since 1957. It was created by the Dahlem sculptor Felix Kupsch . It depicts a naked kneeling archer aiming at the sky.
history
The memorial was ceremoniously unveiled on May 5, 1933 in the Emmichblock , the old truck barracks on Marienfelder Strasse and the corner of Emmichstrasse (today: Malteserstrasse). It was meant to honor the fallen anti-aircraft gunmen of the First World War .
In 1934 the regiment was renamed Flak Regiment 12 and in 1941 it was assigned to the Russian campaign. On November 2, 1942, the I./12 near Stalingrad was encircled together with the 6th Army and was almost completely lost there on January 31, 1943 . Meanwhile, the Emmich block was bombed in the home country. The barracks and the memorial were badly damaged in 1943.
After the Second World War , surviving soldiers united in RK06 (reservist command of the 6th Army) and decided to have the monument restored. Since the Emmich block was now a police barracks, they looked for a new place and found it on an abandoned grave field opposite the memorial stone for the fallen soldiers from Berlin-Steglitz . The base was extended by a row in memory of the fallen comrades in World War II.
In the past, more frequent gatherings were scheduled at the memorial - among others, with the participation of the former flak soldier and later Federal President Karl Carstens or the former flak soldier and later Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt - at least one fixed date is kept by the few survivors to this day : the Stalingrad Day , i.e. the last Sunday in January or the first in February, to commemorate the day of the surrender of the 6th Army on January 31, 1943.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 21 ″ N , 13 ° 20 ′ 39 ″ E