Gedenkstätte Plötzensee - Memorial ceremonies in Plötzensee—continued

Gedenkstätte Plötzensee - Memorial ceremonies in Plötzensee—continued
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  • Unjust Justice System
    Liselotte HerrmannHermann StöhrWalter TeskeAlbert Tamboer
  • Murder by Guillotine and Hanging
    AnnouncementRejection of a Clemency PetitionPreparations for a BeheadingEntry TicketsNotificationBeheadingPublic DeterrentUtilization of CorpsesInvoice
  • The Bloody Nights of Plötzensee
    Karlrobert KreitenJulius FučíkZdeněk HajekCharles Ganty
  • Executions in Ploetzensee Prison
    Father Jakob Gapp S.M.Johanna KirchnerJosef and Veronika AugustyniakGalina RomanovaTatar Resistance Fighters Associated with Musa DzhalilJudicial Murders of Czech Resistance FightersReign of Judicial TerrorThe Red OrchestraJuly 20, 1944
  • Commemoration and Remembrance
    The Situation in 1945The competition for a memorial site 1946/47The second design 1948Divided commemoration 1948/1949New plans 1949/50The foundation stone ceremony and Bruno Grimmek’s design 1951The memorial center’s inauguration 1952After the opening 1953 - 1960Memorial ceremonies in Plötzensee—continued
  • Unjust Justice System
    Liselotte HerrmannHermann StöhrWalter TeskeAlbert Tamboer
  • Murder by Guillotine and Hanging
    AnnouncementRejection of a Clemency PetitionPreparations for a BeheadingEntry TicketsNotificationBeheadingPublic DeterrentUtilization of CorpsesInvoice
  • The Bloody Nights of Plötzensee
    Karlrobert KreitenJulius FučíkZdeněk HajekCharles Ganty
  • Executions in Ploetzensee Prison
    Father Jakob Gapp S.M.Johanna KirchnerJosef and Veronika AugustyniakGalina RomanovaTatar Resistance Fighters Associated with Musa DzhalilJudicial Murders of Czech Resistance FightersReign of Judicial TerrorThe Red OrchestraJuly 20, 1944
  • Commemoration and Remembrance
    The Situation in 1945The competition for a memorial site 1946/47The second design 1948Divided commemoration 1948/1949New plans 1949/50The foundation stone ceremony and Bruno Grimmek’s design 1951The memorial center’s inauguration 1952After the opening 1953 - 1960Memorial ceremonies in Plötzensee—continued
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Annedore Leber, Robert F. Kennedy, and Willy Brandt, 1962.
Annedore Leber, the widow of the murdered resistance activist Julius Leber, United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Willy Brandt, governing mayor of West Berlin, visiting Plötzensee Memorial Center in 1962.
Landesarchiv Berlin, F Rep. 290 (06), Nr. 0113786 / Foto: Hans Seiler
Memorial ceremony by Berlin schools, 1966.
Memorial ceremony by Berlin high-school students for those murdered after July 20, 1944, held on July 6, 1966.
Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand  / Bund der Verfolgten des Naziregimes e.V.
Memorial ceremony for the dead of the Red Orchestra, 1967.
Memorial ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the first executions of Red Orchestra members at Plötzensee Memorial Center. The speech was held by the former prison chaplain Harald Poelchau on December 22, 1967.
Landesarchiv Berlin, F Rep. 290, Nr. 0136746 / Foto: Horst Siegmann
Memorial ceremony for the 25th anniversary of July 20, 1944, in 1969.
Federal President Gustav Heinemann speaking at the memorial ceremony held by the West Berlin senate and the Ring of Political Youth on the 25th anniversary of July 20, 1944 at Plötzensee Memorial Center on July 19, 1969.
Landesarchiv Berlin, F Rep. 290, Nr. 0157111-4 / Foto: Ludwig Ehlers
Laying a wreath on Remembrance Day, 1972.
The German War Graves Commission laying a wreath on Remembrance Day, November 18, 1972.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Prayer service on July 20, 1973.
Prayer service in the former execution room at Plötzensee Memorial Center, with Pastor Bringfried Naumann, Bishop Hanns Lilje, and Father Odilo Braun OP (left to right) on July 20, 1973. Hanns Lilje and Odilo Braun were imprisoned together after the attempted coup of July 20, 1944.
VVN-VdA Berlin, Foto: Jürgen Henschel / FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum
Ceremony honoring Julius Fučík, 1978.
Honoring the Czech resistance activist Julius Fučík with representatives of the military mission of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, February 23, 1978.
Landesarchiv Berlin, F Rep. 290, Nr. 0243576 / Foto: Filipp Israelson
Richard von Weizsäcker and Heinz Galinski, 1982.
Memorial ceremony with the governing mayor of West Berlin, Richard von Weizsäcker (center left), and the chairman of the Berlin Jewish Community, Heinz Galinski (center right), July 20, 1982.
VVN-VdA Berlin, Foto: Jürgen Henschel / FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum
Memorial ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, 1985.
Memorial ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, with (right to left) Heinz Schröder, Jesse Jackson, and Vladimir Gall, May 8, 1985.
Landesarchiv Berlin, F Rep. 290, Nr. 0013979_C / Foto: Ludwig Ehlers
Chaim Herzog laying a wreath, 1987.
Israeli president Chaim Herzog laying a wreath at the commemorative wall in Plötzensee, April 9, 1987.
Landesarchiv Berlin, F Rep. 290, Nr. 0368515 / Foto: Emund Kasperski
Memorial ceremony for Christian resistance activists, 1995.
Memorial ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Christian resistance activists, with Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl (left) and (front row, right to left:) Federal Minister for Labor and Social Order Norbert Blüm, and CDU Secretary-General Peter Hintze, January 23, 1995.
Landesarchiv Berlin, F Rep. 290, Nr. 0373530 / Foto: Stefane Jacob
Memorial ceremony, July 20, 1995.
Participants in the memorial ceremony for the anniversary of July 20, 1944 included (front row, from right to left): Parliamentary President Annemarie Renger, Berlin Senator for Labor and Women Christine Bergmann, Chairman of the Memorial Foundation July 20, 1944 Dieter Thomas, Federal Minister for Regional Development, Construction, and Urban Planning Klaus Töpfer; in the center: the president of Berlin’s city parliament, Hanna-Renate Laurien, July 20, 1995.
Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
Honoring Tatar resistance activists, 2002.
A delegation with the Tatar deputy prime minister Zilya Valeeva honoring murdered Tartar resistance activists at Plötzensee Memorial Center, February 2002.
Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
Memorial ceremony, July 20, 2007.
Memorial ceremony at Plötzensee Memorial Center on July 20, 2007. Front row, from left: the head of the German Resistance Memorial Center, Johannes Tuchel, survivor and author Inge Deutschkron, survivor and author Renate Bethge, Federal Constitutional Court judge Reinhard Gaier, Brandenburg Minister of Economic Affairs Ulrich Junghans, the president of Berlin’s city parliament, Walter Momper, chairman of the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944 Axel Smend, the governing mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit.
Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand, Foto: Margrit Schmidt, Berlin
Memorial ceremony, July 20, 2015.
Memorial ceremony held by the German federal government and the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944 at Plötzensee Memorial Center on July 20, 2015. Along with several hundred others, participants included (left to right): Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, the vice-president of Berlin’s city parliament, Andreas Gram, Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, Robert von Steinau-Steinrück und Axel Smend from the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944, the chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions, Reiner Hoffmann, the president of the Federal Assembly and prime minister of the state of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, German Government Commissioner for Cultural and Media Affairs Monika Grütters, and the vice-president of the Bundestag, Claudia Roth.
Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand / Foto: Margrit Schmidt
Commemoration on July 20, 2020.
Axel Smend from the board of the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944 commemorating the dead at Plötzensee Memorial Center, July 20, 2020.
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