Remembrance Road
The street of remembrance is a publicly accessible monument in the Spree-Bogen in the Berlin district of Moabit . It consists of several sculptures with which the Ernst Freiberger Foundation honors personalities who, primarily in the first half of the 20th century, “achieved extraordinary things and demonstrated an exemplary attitude in the most difficult times”.
concept
The foundation describes the honored persons as heroes without swords . With this, the founder of the foundation, Ernst Freiberger , wants to show that "in the first half of the last century there were also positive heroes - heroes without swords - in Germany". In order to keep the memory of these personalities alive , this monument was created on the Spree-Bogen, at that time in the immediate vicinity of the Ministry of the Interior .
Dear people
There are busts of bronze by the following persons to see (as of June 2013):
- Georg Elser (1903–1945), resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Thomas Mann (1875–1955), writer who emigrated under the National Socialist rule
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969), architect
- Walther Rathenau (1867–1922), industrialist , writer and liberal politician ( DDP )
- Albrecht Haushofer (1903–1945), geographer , diplomat and writer
- Edith Stein (1891–1942), philosopher , nun and martyr of the Catholic Church
- Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), civil engineer , inventor and entrepreneur ( Zuse KG )
- Ludwig Erhard (1897–1977), politician ( CDU )
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955), theoretical physicist
- Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), graphic artist, sculptor
- Helmut Kohl (1930–2017), politician ( CDU ), Prime Minister and Federal Chancellor
In addition, the sculpture We are the people can be seen, which honors all people who contributed to the fall of the wall with their non-violent resistance against the SED regime .
Web links
- Monument of the Ernst Freiberger Foundation , accessed on December 7, 2011.
- Street of Remembrance in Moabiter Spreebogen. Website of In-Berlin-Brandenburg , accessed on May 3, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heroes without swords on the street of remembrance , freiberger-stiftung.de, accessed on December 7, 2011.
- ↑ The Street of Remembrance. In: Berliner Morgenpost , October 14, 2009, accessed on May 3, 2019.
- ↑ We are the people
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '21 " N , 13 ° 20' 51.1" E