Tag: History of Munich
Munich: New monument for Kini on the Cornelius Bridge – Munich
A new monument to Ludwig II is to be built on the Cornelius Bridge – exactly where one stood until 1943, when the Nazis melted it down. If everything goes…
German History: The Putsch and the Traitor
An edition with previously unknown documents reconstructs the Hitler Putsch of November 1923 from the perspective of state power for the first time. The result is a remarkable volume. source…
Rally against the right in Munich: Ude demands to be vigilant – Munich
Christian Ude stands on stage and shouts “the teaching in this place” into the crowd: “Be vigilant!” It is the evening of November 9th, 100 years ago, the Hitler Putsch…
Hitler Putsch: When Hitler died "national revolution" exclaimed
Driven by the unrest of ethnic associations and his own ambition, the “leader” of the National Socialists tried to overthrow the Weimar Republic from Munich on the evening of November…
Archaeologists discover traces of settlement on the Lerchenauer Feld – Munich
This needle was not found in a pile of hay, but in a pile of rocks – here on the Lerchenauer Feld, which is about the size of 32 football…
Munich: Neuaubing forced labor camp – a contemporary witness returns – Munich
The Dutchman Teunis van Houwelingen had to work as a forced laborer in Neuaubing during the Nazi era at the age of 18 – he only told his family about…
Joseph von Baader: Munich technology pioneer with a polarizing personality – Munich
He was an extraordinarily talented inventor and engineer – this can still be seen today in the Nymphenburg Palace Park. At the same time, Joseph von Baader from Munich was…
Munich: The Führerbau is renovated and the music college is expanded into a campus – Munich
The driver’s building is being completely renovated. The debate about it has been going on since 1957, when the state music college moved into the historically heavily contaminated building. Now…
Munich history: How the labor movement fought for the republic – Munich
What happened on a small scale within Munich city politics had fatal consequences on a larger scale. A book shows the political development in Munich in the early 1920s –…
Historian Günther Gerstenberg: Book about early Weimar Republic in Munich – Munich
The beginning of the 1920s was marked by feme murders, hall battles and hateful discourse. In his new book, historian Günther Gerstenberg sheds light on how the right-wing gathered their…