Lenin monuments on the territory of the former GDR

The following list of Lenin monuments on the territory of the former GDR contains the (so far) known monuments and memorial plaques in honor of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and information about their whereabouts. It is divided according to the federal states in eastern Germany that have been in effect since 1991 and can be sorted according to location, date and sculptor. Only plaques that have a direct connection with Lenin's life are mentioned here. Busts, sculptures or reliefs in honor of Lenin that were placed in front of or in schools, factories, LPGs , etc., or that are exhibited in museum rooms, are not listed.

The abbreviations in the first column mean BL = federal state with BE = Berlin , BB = Brandenburg , MV = Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , SN = Saxony , ST = Saxony-Anhalt and TH = Thuringia .

Overview

The table can be sorted according to federal states, the date of installation and the first named sculptor.

BL	Place, address if applicable	when set up when removed	image	technical information material, size of the figure, platform height, etc. a.	sculptor	Explanations
BE	Berlin-Friedrichshain , United Nations Square (formerly Leninplatz)	1970 1992		red granite from Ukraine, 19 m high statue on a round base	Nikolai Tomski	dismantled, dismantled, dug in and replaced by a well system made of boulders. However, the head was dug up again in 2017 and brought to the open-air exhibition at the Spandau Citadel as a permanent exhibit. → Main article : Lenin Monument (Berlin)
BE	Berlin-Friedrichshain, Frankfurter Allee 102 at the corner of Jessnerstrasse	before 1981 (available)		Memorial plaque with portrait		Lenin's whereabouts in 1895. Here he had contacts with representatives of the SPD Reichstag constituency Niederbarnim , and among other things wrote an obituary for the recently deceased Friedrich Engels .
BE	Berlin-Mitte , in the courtyard of today's Russian Embassy on Unter den Linden	1970s 1997		Marble bust		1997 moved to the courtyard of the embassy grounds
BE	Berlin-Mitte, Russian House of Science and Culture formerly: House of Soviet Culture and Science	1984		Marble statue		Monument in the stairwell of the building, the whereabouts of the monument after 1990 has not been clarified. The monument can still be clearly seen in pictures taken by the institute
BE	Berlin-Mitte, on the outside wall of the swimming pool of the Russian Embassy in Behrenstrasse	before 1989 2011		Bronze relief		dismantled
BE	Berlin-Mitte, Unter den Linden, Old Library	before 1981 1990		Plaque		Study visit to Lenin in 1895, inside the Lenin Hall during GDR times
BE	Berlin-Neukölln, Nobelstrasse 66			Bronze statue		Origin unknown - until 2016 it was in the courtyard of a moving company on Köpenicker Straße (Kreuzberg), now in the car park at the company's new location
BB	Eberswalde on the site of a barracks of the Soviet Army	1975		statue		since 2013 at the Aviation Museum Finowfurt
BB	Eggersdorf	1970 1992		Memorial stone with relief
BB	Falkensee , at the beginning of Stalinallee (since 1961 Hansastraße)	1955 1990		bust	Kurt Zobel	1990 brought to the courtyard of the local history museum
BB	Finsterwalde			Memorial stone with relief		received (as of 2014)
BB	Fürstenberg / Havel , Steinförder Straße ( GSSD site )			statue		preserved heavily weathered (as of 2015)
BB	Fürstenberg / Havel, Kirschenallee (area of ​​the Soviet Army)			bust		preserved badly weathered; meanwhile without a base
BB	Glienicke / Northern Railway			Brick base with head sculpture on Leninplatz on the corner of Leninstrasse (now Hauptstrasse) and Lessingstrasse		Removed in 1990.
BB	Lönnewitz Forest			Flag monument with Lenin profile		Former Soviet airfield Oleg Antonov . Preserved in the bushes (as of 2012)
BR	Marzahna , way to school			Memorial stone
BB	Neuruppin	1967		statue	Stepanour
BB	Potsdam , Hegelallee, former house of the Soviet officers	1970 2004		statue		Copy of the Lenin monument by Matwei Maniser in Ulyanovsk , the statue was provisionally dismantled in 2004 and disappeared from the private property on which it was located in April 2018 under unexplained circumstances. Allegedly, the 500 kilo monument is said to have been stolen unnoticed.
BB	Strausberg , market square (formerly Leninplatz)	before 1973 (available)		bust		Originally taken to the local museum on August-Bebel-Straße after the fall of the Wall. In May 2015 members of the Ifa-Freunde Trebus from Strausberg implemented it in their own place.
BB	Wittstock / Dosse , on the open-air site of the former air base , which served the Soviet Army as a military airfield between 1945 and 1994 .	before 1973 (available)		Statue, probably sandstone		Still preserved in the 2010s and open to the public
BB	Wünsdorf , Hauptallee (site of the former high command of the GSSD)	1970		Statue on a high pedestal rounded with dark red granite slabs. The granite is said to come from the Reich Chancellery .	Vladimir Goncharov	received (as of 2015) The object is a listed building
BB	Wünsdorf, Zehrensdorfer Straße (site of the former high command of the GSSD)			statue		received (as of 2015)
MV	Barth , Leninheim	before 1973 (available)		Memorial plaque with head relief
MV	Sassnitz , Hauptstrasse (formerly Leninstrasse) in front of the Seemannsheim (now the Kurhotel)	1985		Memorial stone		transferred to the harbor bridge; receive
MV	Schwerin , Hamburger Allee (formerly Leninallee)	1985		statue	Estonian sculptor Jaak Soans	received (as of 2013). An explanatory plaque has now been added to the memorial. Debate about removal (as of August 2014)
MV	Stralsund , station building	before 1973 (available)		Memorial plaque with head relief
SN	Bischofswerda , main building garrison	1970 1999				stored
SN	Dresden , Wiener Platz (former Leninplatz)	1974 1992		Figure group with two accompanying worker figures	Grigory Jastrebenetzki	Monument dedicated by Hans Modrow . The artist Rudolf Herz presented the busts of the dismantled ensemble again in Dresden in 2004 as part of his Lenin on Tour campaign , and in 2009 also in front of the Cologne Cathedral . → Main article : Lenin Monument (Dresden)
SN	Gröditz , in front of the town hall	before 1979 (available)		statue
SN	Leipzig , Old Fair (Soviet Pavilion)	1950		bust		1993 to a private person to Thuringia, 2003 on the occasion of the film premiere of Good Bye, Lenin! Placed in front of the Leipzig cinema Cinestar, in 2012 in the GDR Museum Burg (Spreewald) The museum closed in 2019, so the future of the bust is uncertain.
SN	Leipzig, Steinstrasse 28	before 1955 (dismantled)		Memorial plaque with head relief		frequent residence of Lenin 1912–1914
SN	Leipzig, Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse 19–21	before 1955 (dismantled)		Memorial plaque with head relief		Lenin's whereabouts in 1912
SN	Leipzig, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse	before 1955 (dismantled)		Memorial plaque with head relief		Lenin's whereabouts in 1912
SN	Leipzig, Kurt-Eisner-Strasse	before 1969 (dismantled)		Plaque		Lenin's whereabouts in 1908
SN	Riesa , on the Rathausplatz (formerly Leninplatz)	1971 1992		3.5 meter high bronze statue		moved to a place in front of the honor grove for Soviet war dead, in 2012 there was a public dispute about tearing the memorial and selling it or leaving it standing. The city administration has decided to stay. In the meantime an information board has been put up, the existence of the monument is secured because it is located on a Soviet war cemetery and is protected by the German-Russian agreement on war grave care.
ST	Castle (near Magdeburg)	?		Bronze bust on a white cuboid base		The bust of Lenin was shown on a picture postcard from GDR times at an e-bay auction in January 2014.
ST	Lutherstadt Eisleben	1948 1991		statue	Matwei Maniser	Erected in 1929 in Pushkin , came to Germany in 1943; in 1948 still set up in the Soviet Zone ; moved to the German Historical Museum in Berlin in 1991 . → Main article : Lenin monument (Eisleben)
ST	Grobzig , market square	around 1977		Bust on sandstone base	Robert Propf	1989 smeared with paint, then dismantled and stored, place replaced by roundabout and linden tree
ST	Halle (Saale) , Pestalozzipark	1970		Memorial stone with head relief	Pump works in Halle	receive; Original from 2015-05-11. In the meantime, the star with Lenin's portrait on the top of the monument has been stolen.
ST	Halle (Saale), Lerchenfeldstraße 14 (City Museum)	1929		Bronze mask	Erich Will and Martin Knauthe	preserved, oldest Lenin memorial in Germany. 1929 in the former rifle house of the Glauchaer Schützengesellschaft erected a stylized bronze mask of Lenin with hammer and sickle on brick pillars in the stairwell. Destroyed in 1933, reconstructed in 1968. Preserved today.
ST	Halle-Neustadt , near Bruchsee	1970 around 1995 (?)		bust	K. S. Boyarsky	stored (green space office) - at the approximate location there has been the installation Steles Trio by the artist Cornelia Felsch since 2001
ST	Hillersleben , Leninplatz (barracks town)			statue		Fell from the pedestal
ST	Merseburg , Weißenfelser Strasse (formerly Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse) on the banks of the Gotthard pond	June 20, 1971 Oct. 12, 1991		statue	M. F. Baburin , G. P. Lewizkaja, J. I. Kuturew, Gerhard Berndt	Copy of a monument erected in 1967 in Ufa . Stored in a hangar on the former military airfield in October 1991, sold in 1997 to an entrepreneur from the Dutch village of Tjuchem in the Slochteren municipality .
ST	Naumburg (Saale) , Theaterplatz	1969		statue		in front of the building of the former SED district leadership, dismantled
ST	Stendal , Nachtigalplatz (formerly Leninplatz)	1969 1991		statue		given as a gift by the Soviet Army; After removal stored in a depot - Federal Archives photo probably wrong
ST	Teutschenthal	before 1973 (available)		bust
ST	Weissenfels	before 1973 (available)		bust		stored in the museum in Neu-Augustenburg Castle
ST	Zeitz -Ost, Karl-Marx-Straße 31	before 1984 (available)		bust		Bust on plinth, behind framing wall
TH	Gera , Friedrich-Engels-Strasse	1971		statue	Gerhard Thieme	converted to Hofgut Gera- Untermhaus , Mohrenplatz. Preserved (as of 2015).
TH	Hellingen	1970		Relief wall		On the 100th birthday ( 1870-1970 ). Inscription learn learn again .
TH	Koenigsee	1951		statue	Johannes Friedrich Rogge	first Lenin monument created in the GDR
TH	Nohra , Nohra South Military Area			statue		Receive. Was completely renovated between 2008-2010.
TH	Weimar , house of the (Soviet) officers	1979 1992		bust	Johannes Friedrich Rogge	Gift from the city of Weimar on the 30th anniversary of the GDR, in the city museum since 1992

See also

• Lenin monument

Web links

• "Lenin is still around" project ( www.leninisstillaround.com )

literature

• Carlos Gomes: Lenin is alive. His monuments in Germany , Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-931745-31-8 .
• Hans Maur : Monuments for WI Lenin on the territory of the German Democratic Republic , Berlin 1970
• Hans Maur: Places of honor and appreciation for Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in the German Democratic Republic , Berlin 1966
• Karl Wiegel, Jutta Frommelt: Lenin memorials in Leipzig , Leipzig 1966

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wellkemm tu se capitell ; April 9, 1993; Mirror ; accessed on January 12, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Hans Maur: Reminder, memorial and remembrance site of the labor movement in Berlin-Friedrichshain. District Management Berlin of the SED (Ed.); 1981; Pages 13-16.
3. ↑ The Russian Embassy banished its Lenin to the inner courtyard , Berliner Zeitung , November 14, 1997.
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2016 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. .
5. ↑ Lenin heads disappear - the Soviet leader is no longer awake , Der Tagesspiegel , February 14, 2011.
6. ↑ Before-and-after pictures: The missing GDR (with four photos), Der Tagesspiegel , November 16, 2017, accessed on December 3, 2017.
7. ^ A right to stay for Lenin , Berliner Zeitung of January 3, 2001.
8. ↑ Lenin statue from Eberswalde on panoramio.com ; accessed on March 20, 2015.
9. ↑ Das Doppeldorf 2013 The article speaks in the subjunctive, but a photo from 1973 ( object database Deutsches Historisches Museum ) shows that the monument already existed at that time.
10. ↑ The source for the dates, the sculptor, etc. is an explanation board in the museum courtyard.
11. ↑ Finsterwalde cannot leave Lenin , Der Tagesspiegel , June 7, 2014 .
12. ↑ See the photo with the map position.
13. ↑ See the photo with the map position.
14. ↑ Lenin is still around in the bushes. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .  ; 2015-06-12.
15. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: photo on Flickr ).
16. ↑ Lenin Monument in Marzahna, object database German Historical Museum
17. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
18. ^ Art on the way
19. ^ The art, the time and the place , in: Eleonore Straub & Günter Harig 1994–1996, catalog, Berlin 1996, pp. 10–11
20. ↑ https://leninisstillaround.com/2018/10/07/akte-x-1-die-verschollene-statue/
21. ↑ Object database German Historical Museum illustration
22. ^ Art on the way & Potsdamer Latest News; June 13, 2007 , accessed January 19, 2014.
23. ↑ Bettina Winkler: Lenin is here! on www.moz.de; Retrieved December 8, 2016.
24. ↑ Slide show of the remains of the Alt Daber airfield on wwwyoutube.com (3:35 min.) The statue of Lenin can be seen in the presentation at 1:49 minutes. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
25. ^ Jens Blankennagel: Opening of a forbidden city . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 8, 2016, p. 18 (illustration with explanatory text: “Winner: The Lenin memorial at the officers' house was placed on granite by the Soviets from Hitler's Reich Chancellery in Berlin”).
26. ↑ See the photo with the map position.
27. ↑ On Hitler's red granite. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .  , Original from 2015-03-092.
28. ↑ See the photo with the map position.
29. ↑ Object database German Historical Museum .
30. ^ Lenin memorial stone Sassnitz, object database German Historical Museum .
31. ↑ At the gateway to the north. 2015, accessed April 25, 2019 . 
32. ↑ Lenin in the West ; May 25, 2008; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ; accessed on January 15, 2014
33. ↑ GDR shield citizens stubbornly stick to www.svz.de from December 12, 2011; accessed on February 2, 2014.
34. ↑ 36/2014 Lenin statue, complete view In: Die Zeit , 2014.
35. ↑ Object database German Historical Museum .
36. ^ Lenin initiative by OB Erler ; August 22, 2013; Radio Lausitz; accessed on January 12, 2014.
37. ↑ Dresden. From the rapid failure of socialist urban planning concepts ; Federal Agency for Political Education ; accessed on January 12, 2014
38. ↑ Lenin Monument, inauguration with Hans Modrow and B. J. Aristow, Leningrad, Professor G. D. Jastrebenetzki , photographs in the Deutsche Fotothek
39. ↑ Lenin on Tour on kunstaspekte.de
40. ↑ Lenin statue on Roncalliplatz in Cologne . On www.köln.de; accessed on February 12, 2016.
41. ↑ old postcard
42. ^ New Germany , January 20, 1979.
43. ↑ Märkische OnlineZeitung; July 18, 2012 ; Retrieved January 19, 2014
44. ↑ Comeback for Lenin ( Memento from January 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
45. ↑ Märkische OnlineZeitung ; July 18, 2012; Retrieved January 19, 2014.
46. ↑ https://leninisstillaround.com/2017/09/21/der-leipziger-lenin-landet-im-spreewald/
47. ↑ A Lenin-Free City? Retrieved April 25, 2019 .  , Original from 2015-02-09.
48. ↑ View of the Lenin statue at its original location in Riesa on a color picture postcard: bottom right ( memento of December 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 8, 2016.
49. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Forever conserved ) In: Sächsische Zeitung , regional edition Riesa of April 23, 2012.
50. ↑ Lenin for one euro on augsburger-allgemeine.de ; accessed on January 14, 2014.
51. ↑ https://leninisstillaround.com/2015/11/15/lenin-bleibt/
52. ↑ The E-Bay auction ended on February 4, 2014, but the "GDR widescreen postcard" from Burg near Magdeburg could still be seen as a preview image.
53. ↑ The heroic rescue. Retrieved April 25, 2019 .  ; First published 2015-02-23.
54. ↑ Berger-Jenkner, Claudia, Robert Propf (1910–1986). Sculpture within two social systems, Bochum 2001.
55. ↑ The column and eagle were removed from the war memorial for 1870/71, and a bust of Lenin was placed on the sandstone plinth, which received the simple inscription "LENIN" and the dates of life. See annual market , p. 238; Kappes, p. 241, ever in: Geschichte der Stadt Gröbzig , ed. by Fritz A. Jahrmarkt & Otto Kappes, Gröbzig 2000.
56. ↑ Berger-Jenkner, Claudia, Robert Propf (1910–1986). Sculpture within two social systems, Bochum 2001.
57. ↑ Jahrmarkt, p. 237 shows the base without a bust in 1989.
58. ^ Antonie Städter Where are the Lenin statues in Saxony-Anhalt? , in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of June 13, 2015, p. 26: "in a warehouse in the city". The annual market, p. 238 also describes: "... until it was then placed in the courtyard of the town hall as a visible sign of the end of an unloved era." According to his account, there was already "the funny attempt at an assassination" in GDR times, such as he puts it, in which several citizens were involved, who put a rope around the neck of the Lenin bust and tied it to a truck.
59. ↑ Halle im Bild ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
60. ↑ Red star over Halle. Retrieved April 25, 2019 . 
61. ↑ https://leninisstillaround.com/2015/05/11/roter-stern-uber-halle/
62. ^ German Historical Museum
63. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Halle, available at denkmal.de ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 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. (Article cannot be linked directly, enter the address in the search mask), accessed on January 23, 2014. 
64. ↑ https://leninisstillaround.com/2017/05/21/das-erste-deutsche-lenindenkmal/
65. ^ Image of the Lenin bust ( Memento from February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) at halle-im-bild.de
66. ↑ Article on the Stelae Trio ( Memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at halle-im-bild.de
67. ↑ Picture available at MDR Wissen ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
    The area has now been partially demolished and rebuilt, so the current condition is unknown. A historical recording can be found on hillersleben.eu , for example , and there was also a bust of Lenin, as hillersleben.com shows. All three pages accessed on March 11, 2015.
68. ↑ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin near Merseburg in the picture , where the further whereabouts are described, accessed on April 24, 2015.
69. ↑ Lenin Monument in Merseburg on kunst-am-wege.de
70. ^ Lenin monument in Naumburg, object database German Historical Museum
71. ↑ The Naumburger . Culture magazine in the Burgenland district
72. ↑ In the GDR Postcard Museum there is an illustration of a completely differently designed Lenin monument in Stendal: Postcard from 1974 (full-body bronze on a base)
73. ^ German Historical Museum .
74. ^ German Historical Museum .
75. ^ Antonie Städter Where are the Lenin statues in Saxony-Anhalt? , in: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung of June 13, 2015, p. 26.
76. ^ GDR postcard museum .
77. ^ Lenin monument in Gera, object database of the German Historical Museum
78. ↑ https://leninisstillaround.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/geras-grubierender-lenin/
79. ↑ Photo on Flickr
80. ↑ See photo link. According to the article Last Hour for Hellinger Lenin? the site insuedthueringen.de in May 2015 by the mayor again made available. Article accessed on May 24, 2015.
81. ↑ Information page of the German Historical Museum
82. ↑ https://leninisstillaround.com/2016/01/31/rote-nelken-fuer-lenin/
83. ↑ Rogge catalog raisonné ( memento of March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).