City community of Königsberg

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The city ​​community of Königsberg is a hereditary administrator of Königsberg (Prussia) .

Origin and purpose

Refugees and expellees from Königsberg - including Hugo Linck  - founded the “Kreisgemeinschaft Königsberg-Stadt” in Hamburg in 1949. Soon 7,000 former residents of the former provincial capital of East Prussia met in Hamburg . Further large meetings followed in Herne and again in Hamburg. Renamed to the "Stadtgemeinschaft Königsberg", its seat was Duisburg ; because the council of the city of Duisburg took over the sponsorship for Königsberg in 1951. From then on, many Königsbergers met in the sponsored city. On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Königsberg in 1955, 35,000 people came to Duisburg. The residents' index created in Hamburg now includes over 300,000 addresses of former Königsberg citizens and their descendants. Early on, exhibits on the history and culture of Königsberg were brought together in Duisburg. They formed the basis for the Museum Haus Königsberg on Mülheimer Strasse , created in 1968 . In connection with the Culture and City History Museum of the City of Duisburg, it became the City Museum of Königsberg in 1992 . The statutes of the city community of Königsberg put cultural goals and cooperation with the Russian institutions and residents of Kaliningrad in the foreground. Since 1960, it has been issuing the Königsberger Bürgerbrief twice a year. It awards the Königsberg Citizen Medal and the Ernst Wiechert Prize as honors .

Former Chair

Board

The board elected in 2019 consists of:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City community of Königsberg
  2. Königsberger Bürgerbrief 94 (2019), pp. 58–61.