Fragment (sculpture)
The fragment is a sculpture ensemble in Bremen - Mitte , on Rudolf-Hilferding-Platz near the House of the Reich (today Senator for Finance), which was erected in 1991 on the 50th anniversary of Rudolf Hilferding's death . It is included in the list of monuments and statues of the city of Bremen .
Sculpture ensemble
The two-part 5 m × 13.5 m × 24.5 m large sculpture ensemble made of Norwegian Vånga - granite and steel comes from the sculptor Hawoli (* 1935). From him still come in Bremen u. a. Tension (1979) in Hemelingen , Gegenpol / Force and Movement (1981) in Walle and ingrown time (1985) in Vegesack , Gerhard-Rohlfs-Straße .
The work of art pays homage to Hilferding. It is a reminder of the “fragility of power” and the political history of the building. The State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen interprets the work u. a. So: “The four lying, roughly hewn stone blocks symbolize the original column architecture of the Haus des Reichs built in 1930 , which have fallen and no longer represent power. The upright, highly polished columns represent a repetition of the overthrown but weakened power: a column is missing, and the remaining three must be held together by an iron clamp ”.
The house of the realm was built by the north wool until 1931 . In February 1931, Nordwolle went into bankruptcy - also due to the global economic crisis - and the office building was taken over by the Reich Finance Administration, was then also used by the Reich Governor and Gauleiter of the NSDAP , was the seat of the US military government and is the seat of the Senator for Finance.
Rudolf Hilferding
Hilferding (1877-1941) was a politician ( SPD ) and journalist, in the Weimar Republic and twice (1923 and 1928/29) Reich Minister of Finance . In 1929, after the New York stock market crash and the beginning of the global economic crisis in December 1929, Hilferding lost his office in the Müller II cabinet as Reich Finance Minister in a red-black government. The right-wing conservative Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht had previously publicly branded the government's financial policy as unsound, refused credit to bridge the liquidity bottleneck and called for a high level of debt reduction instead of measures to stimulate the economy. Soon afterwards, in March 1930, the coalition under Reich Chancellor Hermann Müller (SPD) also broke up . After that, minority governments only governed as presidential cabinets until the seizure of power in 1933 . Hilferding had to flee in 1933, worked for the exile executive committee of the SPD, was arrested in Marseille in 1941, tortured by the Gestapo and probably murdered as a result.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 46.5 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 44.3" E