The Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag is a memorial in Berlin, Germany. The memorial is located in front of the Reichstag building and commemorates the 96 members of the parliament who died unnaturally between 1933 and 1945 (1948). The idea of creating the monument started in the 1980s, and the memorial was erected in September 1992. It was designed by Dieter Appelt, Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Justus Müller, and Christian Zwirner. The memorial is made of 96 cast iron plates, with the names, birth and death dates and places engraved on the edges. It has been designed so that it can be extended if new names are discovered in the future. [1]
Name | Birth | Death | Place of death | Political party |
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Julius Adler | 1894 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD |
Hans Adlhoch | 1884 | 1945 | Munich, before death march | BVP |
Eduard Alexander | 1881 | 1945 | Transport to KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD |
Julius Aßmann | 1868 | 1939 | Bodino, Poland, assassinated | DVP |
Elise Augustat | 1889 | 1940 | KZ Ravensbrück | KPD |
Bernhard Bästlein | 1894 | 1944 | Zuchthaus Brandenburg | KPD |
Artur Becker | 1905 | 1938 | Burgos, Spain, murdered | KPD |
Anton Bias | 1876 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD |
Adolf Biedermann | 1881 | 1933 | Found dead near Recklinghausen | SPD |
Conrad Blenkle | 1901 | 1943 | Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee | KPD |
Fritz Bockius | 1882 | 1945 | KZ Mauthausen | Zentrum |
Clara Bohm-Schuch | 1879 | 1936 | Barnimstrasse women's prison | SPD |
Eugen Bolz | 1881 | 1945 | Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee | Zentrum |
Rudolf Breitscheid | 1874 | 1944 | KZ Buchenwald | SPD |
Lorenz Breunig | 1882 | 1945 | KZ Sachsenhausen | SPD |
Conrad Broßwitz | 1881 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD |
Otto Eggerstedt | 1886 | 1933 | KZ Esterwegen | SPD |
Eugen Eppstein | 1878 | 1943 | KZ Lublin | KPD |
Helene Fleischer | 1899 | 1941 | Stadtroda | KPD |
Albert Funk | 1894 | 1933 | Police headquarters, Recklinghausen | KPD |
Otto Geiselhart | 1890 | 1933 | District court prison, Günzburg | SPD |
Otto Gerig | 1885 | 1944 | KZ Buchenwald | Zentrum |
Paul Gerlach | 1888 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | SPD |
Ernst Grube (politician) | 1890 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD |
Franz Haindl | 1879 | 1941 | Landesanstalt Sonnenstein-Pirna | DBP |
Eduard Hamm | 1879 | 1944 | Gefängnis Berlin Lehrterstraße | DDP |
Ernst Heilmann | 1881 | 1940 | KZ Buchenwald | SPD |
Rudolf Hennig | 1895 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD |
Franz Herbert | 1885 | 1945 | KZ Mauthausen | BVP |
Eugen Herbst | 1903 | 1934 | KZ Dachau | KPD |
Christian Heuck | 1892 | 1934 | Prison Neumünster | KPD |
Guido Heym | 1882 | 1945 | Shot by SS in Weimar | KPD |
Rudolf Hilferding | 1877 | 1941 | Gefängnis Paris La-Sante | SPD |
Gustav Hoch | 1862 | 1942 | KZ Theresienstadt | SPD |
Lambert Horn | 1899 | 1939 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD |
Friedrich Husemann | 1873 | 1935 | KZ Esterwegen | SPD |
Albert Janka | 1907 | 1933 | KZ Reichenbach | KPD |
Heinrich Jasper | 1875 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | SPD |
Friedrich Jendrosch | 1890 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD |
Reinhold Jürgensen | 1898 | 1934 | KZ Fuhlsbüttel | KPD |
Eugen Kaiser | 1879 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD |
Albert Kayser | 1898 | 1944 | KZ Buchenwald | KPD |
Franziska Kessel | 1906 | 1934 | Zuchthaus Mainz | KPD |
Anton Krzikalla | 1887 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD |
Franz Künstler | 1888 | 1942 | Berlin, Spätfolgen des KZ Lichtenburg | SPD |
Max Lademann | 1896 | 1941 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD |
Julius Leber | 1891 | 1945 | Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee | SPD |
Paul Lejeune-Jung | 1882 | 1944 | Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee | CHR.N.A |
Richard Lipinski | 1867 | 1936 | Bennewitz | SPD |
Karl Mache | 1882 | 1934 | KZ Kislau | SPD [2] |
Max Maddalena | 1895 | 1943 | Prison Brandenburg-Görden | KPD |
Ludwig Marum | 1882 | 1934 | KZ Kislau | SPD |
Stefan Meier | 1889 | 1944 | KZ Mauthausen | SPD |
August Merges | 1870 | 1945 | Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel prison | SPD [3] [4] |
Franz Metz | 1878 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD |
Julius Moses | 1868 | 1942 | KZ Theresienstadt | SPD |
Arthur Nagel | 1890 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD |
Theodor Neubauer | 1890 | 1945 | Brandenburg-Görden prison | KPD |
Franz Petrich | 1889 | 1945 | Sonnenburg prison | SPD |
Andreas Portune | 1875 | 1945 | Roslau | SPD |
Friedrich Puchta | 1883 | 1945 | KZ Dachau | SPD |
Ernst Putz | 1896 | 1933 | Berlin-Moabit prison | KPD |
Siegfried Rädel | 1893 | 1943 | Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee | KPD |
Paul Redlich | 1893 | 1944 | KZ Sonnenburg | KPD |
Walter Reek | 1878 | 1933 | Danzig prison | SPD |
Ernst Reinke | 1891 | 1943 | KZ Flossenbürg | KPD |
Max Richter | 1881 | 1945 | Neustädter Bucht, transportation to KZ Neuengamme | SPD |
Theodor Roeingh | 1882 | 1945 | KZ Sachsenhausen | Zentrum |
Julius Rosemann | 1878 | 1933 | Hamm police jail | SPD |
Karl Sattler | 1896 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | KPD |
John Schehr | 1896 | 1934 | Schäferberg/Kilometerberg: shot "escaping" | KPD |
Michael Schnabrich | 1880 | 1939 | KZ Sachsenhausen | SPD |
Ernst Schneller | 1890 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD |
Ernst Schneppenhorst | 1881 | 1945 | Gefängnis Berlin Lehrterstraße | SPD |
Werner Scholem | 1895 | 1940 | KZ Buchenwald | KPD |
Georg Schumann | 1886 | 1945 | Detention in Dresden | KPD |
Walter Schütz | 1897 | 1933 | Murdered in Königsberg by the SA | KPD |
Hugo Sinzheimer | 1875 | 1945 | Overveen Gemeente Bloemendaal (Niederlande) | SPD |
Willi Skamira | 1897 | 1945 | Brandenburg-Görden prison | KPD |
Fritz Soldmann | 1878 | 1945 | KZ Buchenwald | SPD |
Robert Stamm | 1900 | 1937 | Berlin-Plötzensee prison | KPD |
Johannes Stelling | 1877 | 1933 | District court prison, Berlin-Köpenick | SPD |
Franz Stenzer | 1900 | 1933 | KZ Dachau | KPD |
Walter Stöcker | 1891 | 1939 | KZ Buchenwald | USPD, KPD |
Georg Streiter | 1884 | 1945 | KZ Ravensbrück | DVP |
August Streufert | 1887 | 1944 | KZ Neuengamme | SPD |
Hermann Tempel | 1889 | 1944 | Oldenburg, Haftfolgen Wölfenbüttel prison | SPD |
Johanna Tesch | 1875 | 1945 | KZ Ravensbrück | SPD |
Ernst Thälmann | 1886 | 1944 | KZ Buchenwald | KPD |
Mathias Thesen | 1891 | 1944 | KZ Sachsenhausen | KPD |
Nikolaus Thielen | 1901 | 1944 | KZ Mauthausen | KPD |
Fritz Voigt | 1882 | 1945 | Berlin-Plötzensee prison | SPD |
Paul Voigt | 1876 | 1944 | Murdered in Berlin | SPD |
Paul Wegmann | 1889 | 1945 | KZ Bergen-Belsen | USPD |
Georg Wendt | 1889 | 1948 | Berlin, before Brandenburg prison | SPD |
Lotte Zinke | 1891 | 1944 | KZ Ravensbrück | KPD |
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