Memorial sites of national and international importance in Germany

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This list gives an overview of the Federal Republic of Germany officially as memorials of national and international importance classified memorials in Germany. Responsibility lies with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, BKM (Minister of State for Culture) within the framework of the priority program " Processing and Commemoration " located there.

Memorial conception

In continuation of the first study commission “ Working on the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany” (final report 1994), the second study commission “Overcoming the consequences of the SED dictatorship in the process of German unity” in its final report 1998 of the federal government for “all-German forms of remembrance of the two German dictatorships and their victims” and made them more concrete. In this report, the federal government also emphasized the “fundamental importance of memorials in the democratic culture of remembrance” for the first time.

From this, a recommendation for the promotion of memorial sites “in outstanding locations of national importance throughout Germany” was derived from federal funds, for which several criteria were applied, according to which the memorial sites were divided into three groups. For special cases, selective and time-limited funding opportunities for regional and local projects have been provided.

According to this concept, memorials of national importance should be “outstanding institutions”, “which are exemplary in the public consciousness for certain forms of persecution”, and also have a scientifically, museologically and pedagogically sound concept that includes associations of victims and victims as well as associations and is supported by the respective federal state in which they are located are also supported.

The Federal Government has been promoting in particular on the basis of this concept since 1999

  • Memorial sites for the victims of war and Nazi tyranny
  • Memorial sites for the victims of the communist dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR
  • Preservation of Soviet memorials. (as the mutual maintenance and preservation of national memorials was contractually agreed in the German-Soviet neighborhood agreement of November 9, 1990).

The federal government also maintains five as part of the BKM's priority program "Processing and Commemoration"

  • Politician memorial foundations in memory of important German statesmen .

Further development

On November 9, 2007, the Bundestag decided to erect a Freedom and Unity Monument in Berlin , which is intended to “commemorate the peaceful revolution in autumn 1989 and the regaining of national unity in Germany” and, at the same time, “the liberal movements and unity efforts of the centuries past ”.

In addition, in the spring of 2008 the Federal Cabinet decided to set up an exhibition and documentation center on flight and displacement in Berlin, which is maintained by the Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation .

In June 2008, the Federal Cabinet decided to update the memorial site concept from 1999 under the title “Taking responsibility, strengthening reappraisal, deepening commemoration”. In the future, memorials of national importance, commemorating the National Socialist reign of terror and its victims, as well as coming to terms with the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and in the former GDR and commemorating their victims are to be promoted more strongly. The new concept also provides for the memorials in Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, Flossenbürg and Neuengamme to be included in the institutional funding and to renovate some memorials in stages. The financial resources for the memorials were increased by 50 percent to a total of 35 million euros in 2008 and 2009 in order to implement the further developed concept.

Memorials

The following institutions are included in the institutional funding of the federal government. In addition, the federal government finances various projects for other memorial sites of national and international importance.

Memorial sites for the victims of war and Nazi tyranny

Memorial sites for the victims of the communist dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR

Detention and Political Justice:

Limit and division:

In addition, the federal government initiated and financed the Internet portal "Places of Repression in the Soviet Zone and the GDR".

Soviet memorials

(Note: only these three memorials are included in the official list of federally funded memorials, but there are others, see Soviet memorial )

Politician memorial foundations in memory of important German statesmen

The following foundations are included in the institutional funding of the federal government.

See also

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Bundesregierung.de: Priority Program of the BKM "Processing and Commemoration" ( Memento of the original of March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesregierung.de
  2. ↑ Bundesregierung.de: Memorials for the victims of war and Nazi tyranny  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundesregierung.de  
  3. ↑ bundesregierung.de: Memorials for the victims of the communist dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR ( Memento of the original of June 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesregierung.de
  4. ↑ bundesregierung.de: Preservation of Soviet memorials ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundesregierung.de
  5. ↑ bundesregierung.de: Politikergedenkstiftungen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundesregierung.de  
  6. ↑ Speech by Minister of State Bernd Neumann in the debate on “Updating the memorial conception” in the German Bundestag ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , November 13, 2008.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.bundesregierung.de