Tag: History of Munich
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…
Gastronomy: Traditional Munich restaurant gets its original name back
When names aren’t just smoke and mirrors: The Schneider Bräuhaus can now be called Weisses Bräuhaus again. source site
Fund on the Isar: The double destruction of the Munich synagogue – Munich
In 1938 the Nazis had the magnificent building in the old town demolished, and eleven years after the war the partially decorated stones were used to repair a weir on…
Munich: Monument award goes to Lochhausen and Untermenzing – Munich
When the Upper Bavarian Monument Prize was awarded for the second time by the district of Upper Bavaria, two awards went to monuments in the west of Munich. Private owners…
Gymnastics Festival 1923 in Munich: Hitler and the gymnasts
Despite hyperinflation and political turmoil, the German Gymnastics Festival took place in Munich in 1923 – and attracted hundreds of thousands. When the National Socialists tried to hijack the event…
Eleven memorials inaugurated – which fates Munich remembers – Munich
Melitta and Max Wallach once provided the people of Munich with fabrics and fashion – then they were expropriated, deported and murdered in Auschwitz. Why the official commemoration of this…
Munich: Two exhibitions about the fate of displaced persons – Munich
Two exhibitions in the Jewish Museum and City Museum are dedicated to the so-called displaced persons who ended up in Munich after the Second World War – and who at…
Munich moments: A ghost haunts the Isartor – Munich
Should the unimaginable, the horrible, the horrific happen, should the Valentin-Karlstadt-Musäum actually have to evacuate the Isartor because of a lack of fire protection, then – well, what then? In…
Munich on February 10, 1970: The forgotten terrorist attack at Riemer Airport – Munich
At first they had only thought of a plaque. “We would have been happy with that,” says Israeli Miki Dror, while her brother Ofer Katzenstein nods. They are two of…