Stresemann memorial
The Stresemann memorial in Mainz was inaugurated on July 5, 1931 at Fischtor-Platz . It was named after the Reich Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Gustav Stresemann, who died in 1929 . Stresemann's work at the 1929 Hague Conference was of particular importance for Mainz. France agreed to the date for the early termination of the occupation of the Rhineland on June 30, 1930. In 1935 the National Socialists tore down the memorial. In doing so, they defamed Gustav Stresemann's commitment to the reconciliation of peoples as a “policy of fulfillment ”. After the Second World War , at the suggestion of Wilhelm Ferdinand Kalles , the Stresemann memorial was not rebuilt at the Fischtor, but from 1956 in the New Armory , where the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chancellery also had its seat.
The Gustav Stresemanns are also remembered in Mainz with the Gustav Stresemann Business School and a stretch of shore between Fischtor and Winterhafen, the Stresemann Ufer. location
The German Unity Memorial has been located on Fischtor-Platz since 1961 .
“This great age is not just about people-to-people relationships. It is about an idea that is more than just a phrase about an idea of European culture. To an idea of human development. "
See also
- The Liberation Monument (1930–1933) in Mainz was also destroyed by the National Socialists.
- There was another Stresemann memorial in the park of Schloss Freienfels .
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinz Duchhardt : From the old to the new Stresemann memorial , publisher State Chancellery Mainz
- ^ The Stresemann office . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1959, pp. 34-36 ( online ).
