Detlev Rohwedder House designed by Architect Ernst Sagebiel & built 1935-1935 houses German Federal Ministry of Finance - Leipziger Strasse 124, Mitte

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Detlev Rohwedder House designed by Architect Ernst Sagebiel & built 1935-1935 houses German Federal Ministry of Finance - Leipziger Strasse 124, Mitte-Berlin, Germany The building is named after Detlev Rohwedder, the assassinated head of the Treuhand, which had its headquarters there 1991–1995 The 18 Metre Ceramic mural designed by Max Lingner was installed on the front of the building between 1950 and 1952. With a degree of irony, the building became the focal point a year later of the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany. The "Memorial to the Events of the Seventeenth of June 1953” by Wolfgang Rüppel is set into the ground in front of the building. The memorial shows strikers marching to the building known as the House of demonstration violently stopped and the loss of many lives. At the north (Leipziger Straße) end of the building, a plaque commemorates the protest meeting of 16 June 1953 and refers the the square as the ‘Platz des Volksaufstandes von 1953’ (People's Uprising Square)

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Size: 4138px × 2956px
Location: Leipziger Strasse 124, Mitte-Berlin,Germany
Photo credit: © Eden Breitz / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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