Saxony-Anhalt Memorials Foundation

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Saxony-Anhalt Memorials Foundation
legal form Foundation under public law
founding January 1, 2007
Foundation director Kai Langer
Seat Magdeburg
Number of employees 36
revenue 7.418.383 € (2018)

The Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation is a foundation under public law based in Magdeburg . The state of Saxony-Anhalt legally established it in 2006. The foundation maintains seven memorial sites under its own sponsorship , which are associated with the time of National Socialism , the Soviet occupation and the German Democratic Republic . It pursues exclusively charitable purposes.

Foundation purpose

“The purpose of the foundation is to contribute through its work to ensuring that the knowledge of the unique crimes during the National Socialist dictatorship is preserved and passed on in the minds of the people. It is also the task of the foundation to present the serious human rights violations during the times of the Soviet occupation and the SED dictatorship and to disseminate knowledge about them. ”Section 2 (1) GedenkStiftG LSA

To fulfill the purpose of the foundation, the foundation receives annual financial aid from the state of Saxony-Anhalt (€ 2,866,182 in 2018). It may also accept donations from third parties for this purpose.

construction

The foundation's organs include the foundation board and the foundation director. The State Secretary for Culture of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, Gunnar Schellenberger , currently chairs the Board of Trustees (as of 2019) . The committee includes a. Representatives of the state ministries and the state center for political education as well as the state commissioner for coming to terms with the SED dictatorship. The Board of Trustees is responsible for electing the Foundation Director, who will manage the day-to-day business of the Foundation and represent it in court. Historian Kai Langer has held this position since 2010.

The foundation also has separate advisory boards for commemorating and commemorating the National Socialist dictatorship as well as the Soviet occupation and the SED dictatorship. In addition, a committee of five expert members forms the Scientific Advisory Board.

The foundation currently has 36 permanent positions. Its office is located in the listed building of the former Royal Prussian District Court Magdeburg-Neustadt, which is also the seat of the Moritzplatz Magdeburg Memorial .

history

The uncertain future of the Lichtenburg concentration camp at that time was a decisive impetus for establishing the foundation. The federal government's intentions to sell the palace complex, which it acquired after reunification, and proposals to close the memorial, brought Lichtenburg more public and political interest in 2003. While the state parliament and the state government spoke out in favor of preservation, the Wittenberg district complained that it did not have sufficient funds to continue operating the memorial. After controversial discussions in the state parliament, the former Minister of Justice Curt Becker pleaded for Lichtenburg to be transferred to a state-owned foundation with other memorials in Saxony-Anhalt. In December 2005, the state government introduced a draft to the state parliament which provided for the establishment of the “Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation” in order to ensure the “existence of the memorials and the continuity of the memorial work”. The revised draft law was adopted at second reading in March 2006 and entered into force in January 2007. The state's own memorials were thus transferred to the newly established foundation.

After the short term of office of the first director, Joachim Scherrieble, and a vacancy of more than a year, the board of trustees elected historian Kai Langer as his successor in May 2010.

2011 was an important milestone for the foundation. While its office moved from its temporary premises to its final location at Moritzplatz in Magdeburg, the newly designed Lichtenburg-Prettin concentration camp memorial was fully integrated into the foundation and presented to the public in December of that year.

After a contract with the Hanseatic city of Gardelegen in April 2015, the foundation took over the former Feldscheune Isenschnibbe memorial . In April 2018, construction work began on a visitor and documentation center, which is expected to be completed in autumn 2019.

The State Center for Civic Education has supported the foundation since 2014 by fully assuming travel costs for educational trips to the memorial sites. The initially temporary cooperation agreement was converted into permanent funding in 2019 in order to encourage school groups to visit the state's own memorials in the future.

Memorials

Surname city Visitors (2018)
Lichtenburg Prettin concentration camp memorial City of Prettin 3,800
Memorial for victims of Nazi “euthanasia” Bernburg Bernburg 15,100
Memorial for the victims of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp Langenstein 10,400
Isenschnibbe Gardelegen field barn memorial Guards 6,700
Red Ox Memorial Halle (Saale) Hall 14,000
Moritzplatz Magdeburg Memorial Magdeburg 14,300
Memorial of the division of Germany in Marienborn Marienborn 136,600

The Hötensleben border monument and the memorial for the victims of fascist terror in Dolle also belong to the foundation .

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Law on the establishment of the “Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation” of March 22, 2006. In: GVBl. LSA 2006, 137. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation (ed.): Annual report 2018. On the work of the Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation . ISSN  2194-2315 , p. 19 .
  3. ↑ Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation (ed.): Annual report 2018. On the work of the Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation. ISSN  2194-2315 , p. 21 .
  4. ↑ Susanne Arlt: Castle with a dark past. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , June 12, 2009, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
  5. ^ Kai Langer: Ten Years of the Saxony-Anhalt Memorials Foundation. Balance sheet and outlook . In: Remember! Task, opportunity, challenge . tape 2 , 2017, ISSN  2194-2307 , p. 1–32, here p. 10 f .
  6. ↑ Foundation does not call for funds from the state: Concentration camp and Stasi memorials are in ruins . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 16, 2009, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed on August 13, 2019]).
  7. ^ Prognos AG : Evaluation of the Saxon Memorials Foundation. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Saxon Memorials Foundation in memory of the victims of political tyranny, January 29, 2019, p. 107 , accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  8. ^ Lichtenburg concentration camp: It's bad time ... In: Volksstimme . Magdeburger Verlags- und Druckhaus GmbH, December 1, 2011, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
  9. ^ Petra Hartmann: Start of construction on the memorial. In: Volksstimme . Magdeburger Verlags- und Druckhaus GmbH, April 11, 2018, accessed on August 1, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Reimbursement of costs for memorial trips. In: State Center for Political Education Saxony-Anhalt . State Chancellery and Ministry of Culture Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on August 13, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation (ed.): Annual report 2018. On the work of the Sachsen-Anhalt Memorials Foundation . ISSN  2194-2315 , p. 16 .