Memorial Socialists Berlin-Friedrichsfelde

The Friedrichsfelde municipal cemetery contains a memorial park for the fallen communists and socialists.

A memorial wall bears the text:

"Fame and Honour for the Immortal Fighters for Socialism"
with below it the names of communists and socialists who perished during the 1918 Revolution and the period following World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Spanish Civil War and World War II.

Right from its opening, Friedrichsfelde became the favourite cemetery of prominent members of the labour movement and the KPD. Before the Nazis seized power, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Liebknecht, among others, were already buried here, and a memorial to the KPD and its fallen supporters was erected.

The Nazis had this memorial razed to the ground but after the war Wilhelm Pieck, the GDR president, had a new socialist memorial built in 1951 to which the existing graves were transferred. In addition, urns containing the ashes of prominent communists and socialists killed by the Nazis were given a place or commemorated here. These included Ernst Thälmann and Rudolf Breidscheid who were murdered at Buchenwald.

Then, until the end of the GDR, dozens of prominent SED members and politicians like Walter Ulbricht, among others, were buried or interred in the memorial park.

At the entrance to the cemetery is a covered area with information boards about the memorial and those buried or interred there.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Jan de Jager
• https://www.sozialistenfriedhof.de/index.php?id=startseite&L=228%27