Tannenberg Memorial

Tannenberg Memorial

The Tannenberg Memorial commemorated fallen German soldiers of the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914. This battle had been named after the medieval Battle of Tannenberg (1410). The victorious German commander, Paul von Hindenburg, became a national hero, and was later elected Reichspräsident.

The architects of the memorial were the brothers Johannes and Walter Krüger, from Berlin. The memorial was built in 1927 by the Weimar Republic near Hohenstein (Ostpreußen) (now Olsztynek, Poland). The octagonal layout with towers is reminiscent of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II's Castel del Monte, and of Stonehenge.

When Reichspräsident Hindenburg died in 1934, his coffin and that of his wife who had died in the 1920s, was placed there. Hitler ordered the monument to be redesigned and renamed "Reichsehrenmal Tannenberg".

In 1945, as Soviet forces advanced into East Prussia, Hitler ordered both coffins to be disinterred and moved to Marburg an der Lahn, and the memorial destroyed. Poland later removed the remnants of the memorial, and only the foundations remain.

References

* Jürgen Tietz: "Das Tannenberg-Nationaldenkmal. Architektur, Geschichte, Kontext. Berlin: Verlag Bauwesen 1999.

External links

* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/weimar/innenpolitik/denkmal/ Tannenberg-Denkmal (German Historic Museum)]
* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/objekte/pict/tadenk/index.html Postcard]
* [http://info-poland.buffalo.edu/classroom/JM/monument.html A Monument to German Pride: A history of the Tannenberg Memorial]


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