Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag

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Detail of the memorial

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]

Commemorated people

NameBirthDeathPlace of deathPolitical party
Julius Adler 18941945 KZ Bergen-Belsen KPD
Hans Adlhoch 18841945Munich, before death march BVP
Eduard Alexander 18811945Transport to KZ Bergen-Belsen KPD
Julius Aßmann 18681939 Bodino, Poland, assassinated DVP
Elise Augustat 18891940 KZ Ravensbrück KPD
Bernhard Bästlein 18941944 Zuchthaus Brandenburg KPD
Artur Becker 19051938 Burgos, Spain, murdered KPD
Anton Bias 18761945 KZ Dachau SPD
Adolf Biedermann 18811933Found dead near Recklinghausen SPD
Conrad Blenkle 19011943 Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee KPD
Fritz Bockius 18821945 KZ Mauthausen Zentrum
Clara Bohm-Schuch 18791936 Barnimstrasse women's prison SPD
Eugen Bolz 18811945 Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee Zentrum
Rudolf Breitscheid 18741944 KZ Buchenwald SPD
Lorenz Breunig 18821945 KZ Sachsenhausen SPD
Conrad Broßwitz 18811945 KZ Dachau SPD
Otto Eggerstedt 18861933 KZ Esterwegen SPD
Eugen Eppstein 18781943 KZ Lublin KPD
Helene Fleischer 18991941Stadtroda KPD
Albert Funk 18941933Police headquarters, Recklinghausen KPD
Otto Geiselhart 18901933District court prison, GünzburgSPD
Otto Gerig 18851944 KZ Buchenwald Zentrum
Paul Gerlach 18881944 KZ Sachsenhausen SPD
Ernst Grube (politician) 18901945 KZ Bergen-Belsen KPD
Franz Haindl 18791941 Landesanstalt Sonnenstein-Pirna DBP
Eduard Hamm 18791944 Gefängnis Berlin Lehrterstraße DDP
Ernst Heilmann 18811940KZ BuchenwaldSPD
Rudolf Hennig 18951944KZ Sachsenhausen KPD
Franz Herbert 18851945 KZ Mauthausen BVP
Eugen Herbst 19031934KZ Dachau KPD
Christian Heuck 18921934Prison Neumünster KPD
Guido Heym 18821945Shot by SS in Weimar KPD
Rudolf Hilferding 18771941 Gefängnis Paris La-Sante SPD
Gustav Hoch 18621942KZ TheresienstadtSPD
Lambert Horn 18991939KZ Sachsenhausen KPD
Friedrich Husemann 18731935KZ EsterwegenSPD
Albert Janka 19071933KZ Reichenbach KPD
Heinrich Jasper 18751945KZ Bergen-BelsenSPD
Friedrich Jendrosch 18901944KZ Sachsenhausen KPD
Reinhold Jürgensen 18981934KZ Fuhlsbüttel KPD
Eugen Kaiser 18791945KZ DachauSPD
Albert Kayser 18981944KZ Buchenwald KPD
Franziska Kessel 19061934Zuchthaus Mainz KPD
Anton Krzikalla 18871944KZ Sachsenhausen KPD
Franz Künstler 18881942Berlin, Spätfolgen des KZ LichtenburgSPD
Max Lademann 18961941KZ Sachsenhausen KPD
Julius Leber 18911945 Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee SPD
Paul Lejeune-Jung 18821944 Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee CHR.N.A
Richard Lipinski 18671936BennewitzSPD
Karl Mache 18821934KZ KislauSPD [2]
Max Maddalena 18951943Prison Brandenburg-Görden KPD
Ludwig Marum 18821934KZ KislauSPD
Stefan Meier 18891944KZ MauthausenSPD
August Merges 18701945Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel prisonSPD [3] [4]
Franz Metz 18781945KZ DachauSPD
Julius Moses 18681942KZ TheresienstadtSPD
Arthur Nagel 18901945KZ Bergen-Belsen KPD
Theodor Neubauer 18901945Brandenburg-Görden prison KPD
Franz Petrich 18891945Sonnenburg prisonSPD
Andreas Portune 18751945RoslauSPD
Friedrich Puchta 18831945KZ DachauSPD
Ernst Putz 18961933Berlin-Moabit prison KPD
Siegfried Rädel 18931943 Zuchthaus Berlin-Plötzensee KPD
Paul Redlich 18931944KZ Sonnenburg KPD
Walter Reek 18781933Danzig prisonSPD
Ernst Reinke 18911943KZ Flossenbürg KPD
Max Richter 18811945Neustädter Bucht, transportation to KZ NeuengammeSPD
Theodor Roeingh 18821945KZ SachsenhausenZentrum
Julius Rosemann 18781933Hamm police jailSPD
Karl Sattler 18961945KZ Bergen-Belsen KPD
John Schehr 18961934 Schäferberg/Kilometerberg: shot "escaping" KPD
Michael Schnabrich 18801939KZ SachsenhausenSPD
Ernst Schneller 18901944 KZ Sachsenhausen KPD
Ernst Schneppenhorst 18811945 Gefängnis Berlin Lehrterstraße SPD
Werner Scholem 18951940KZ Buchenwald KPD
Georg Schumann 18861945Detention in Dresden KPD
Walter Schütz 18971933Murdered in Königsberg by the SA KPD
Hugo Sinzheimer 18751945Overveen Gemeente Bloemendaal (Niederlande)SPD
Willi Skamira 18971945Brandenburg-Görden prison KPD
Fritz Soldmann 18781945KZ BuchenwaldSPD
Robert Stamm 19001937 Berlin-Plötzensee prison KPD
Johannes Stelling 18771933District court prison, Berlin-KöpenickSPD
Franz Stenzer 19001933KZ Dachau KPD
Walter Stöcker 18911939KZ BuchenwaldUSPD, KPD
Georg Streiter 18841945KZ RavensbrückDVP
August Streufert 18871944 KZ Neuengamme SPD
Hermann Tempel 18891944Oldenburg, Haftfolgen Wölfenbüttel prisonSPD
Johanna Tesch 18751945KZ RavensbrückSPD
Ernst Thälmann 18861944KZ Buchenwald KPD
Mathias Thesen 18911944KZ Sachsenhausen KPD
Nikolaus Thielen 19011944KZ Mauthausen KPD
Fritz Voigt 18821945 Berlin-Plötzensee prisonSPD
Paul Voigt 18761944Murdered in BerlinSPD
Paul Wegmann 18891945KZ Bergen-BelsenUSPD
Georg Wendt 18891948Berlin, before Brandenburg prisonSPD
Lotte Zinke 18911944 KZ Ravensbrück KPD

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References

  1. ↑ "Memorial to the Murdered Members of the Reichstag". Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
  2. ↑ Mache starb nach den Angaben bei Martin Schumacher (Hrsg.): M.d.R. Die Reichstagsabgeordneten der Weimarer Republik in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Politische Verfolgung, Emigration und Ausbürgerung 1933-1945. Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN   3-7700-5162-9, S. 381, 1944 im KZ Groß-Rosen.
  3. ↑ Die Angabe „Braunschweig Zuchthaus Wolfenbüttel“ ist irreführend bzw. falsch. August Merges verstarb nicht im Gefängnis Wolfenbüttel, sondern nach der Entlassung zuhause in Braunschweig an den Spätfolgen der in der Haft erlittenen Misshandlungen durch die Gestapo.
  4. ↑ Gerhard Schildt, In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Hrsg.): Braunschweigisches biographisches Lexikon. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hahn, Hannover 1996, ISBN   3-7752-5838-8, S. 410

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