Commemoration
Some 1,500 people attended the Plötzensee Memorial Center’s inauguration on September 14, 1952.
Commemoration and wreath-laying ceremony at Plötzensee Memorial Center in 1954, marking the tenth anniversary of July 20, 1944.<br>
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Left to right: President of the West German Parliament Hermann Ehlers, Federal President Theodor Heuss, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and Mayor of Berlin Walther Schreiber.
Annedore Leber, the widow of the murdered resistance fighter Julius Leber, Attorney General of the United States Robert F. Kennedy, and Mayor of Berlin Willy Brandt visiting the Plötzensee Memorial Center in 1962.
Commemoration on the 25th anniversary of the first executions of Red Orchestra members at the Plötzensee Memorial Center.<br>
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The former prison chaplain Harald Poelchau gave the speech on December 22, 1967.
Federal President Gustav Heinemann speaking at the memorial event for the 25th anniversary of July 20, 1944, held by the West Berlin senate and the Young Political Ring at the Plötzensee Memorial Center on July 19, 1969.
Church service in the former execution room at Plötzensee Memorial Center, with Pastor Bringfried Naumann, Bishop Hanns Lilje, and Father Odilo Braun O.P. (left to right) on July 20, 1973. Hanns Lilje and Odilo Braun were imprisoned together after the attempted coup of July 20, 1944.
Commemorative event at Plötzensee Memorial Center on July 20, 2015, held by the federal government and the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944.<br>
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Along with several hundred guests, participants included (left to right) Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, Vice President of the Berlin House of Representatives Andreas Gram, Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, Robert von Steinau-Steinrück and Axel Smend (representing the Memorial Foundation for July 20, 1944), Chair of the German Federation of Trade Unions Reiner Hoffmann, President of the Federal Assembly and Prime Minister of the State of Hessen Volker Bouffier, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media Monika Grütters, and Vice President of the Federal Parliament Claudia Roth.