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34-509: The idea of a memorial was suggested by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) on behalf of the federal government of Berlin, and architects Kohlhoff & Kohlhoff were commissioned to design it. The cost of the competition and completion was 2.2  million   Marks . The federal government took over the construction costs, while the state covers the maintenance costs. On 11 September 2008

68-627: A German historical museum in Berlin a national priority of European importance in his speech on the State of the Nation before the German Bundestag on 27 February 1985. A commission consisting of 16 leading historians, art historians and museum directors worked out a concept for the museum in 1985/86 and put it up for discussion in public hearings in 1986. The final version became the basis for

102-472: A façade of wooden rods. The chapel includes a prayer room and materials from the former Versöhnungskirche (reconciliation church), which stood on the site until it was destroyed in 1985 because it was inside the border strip. 52°32′6″N 13°23′23″E  /  52.53500°N 13.38972°E  / 52.53500; 13.38972 Deutsches Historisches Museum The German Historical Museum (German: Deutsches Historisches Museum ), known by

136-733: A part and capital of the East Germany — not recognized by the NATO members, but actually condoned by the 1971 Four Power Agreement on Berlin and the German Basic Treaty of 1972 . The government of West Berlin claimed to be the legitimate government for all of Berlin within the borders established by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act until the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. Even before German reunification on 3 October 1990,

170-719: Is located behind the Zeughaus in the museum's administrative building, which had belonged to the Prussian credit union Prussische Central-Genossenschaftskasse from 1899 to 1945 and later to the GDR state-run company Minol. The Zeughauskino , a movie theatre seating 164 guests, is an integral part of the German Historical Museum and is located in the Zeughaus. It has a separate entrance on the Kupfergraben side of

204-472: Is member and head of the Berlin Senate. The ministers are called senators. The two deputies additionally hold the title of Mayor ( German : Bürgermeister , historically: burgomaster ). The title Mayor is also held by the heads of the twelve boroughs of Berlin , although they do not actually preside over self-governmental municipalities. The governing mayor is elected by the city's state parliament,

238-870: Is under the aegis of the German Historical Museum. General Director of the Museum and President of the Foundation: The Zeughaus is closed for necessary renovations and for the renewal of the Permanent Exhibition since 28 June 2021. It is expected to open again at the end of 2025. The four floors of the I. M. Pei Exhibition Hall are devoted to the museum's temporary exhibitions. The specialised research library on German and general history as well as museum work contains more than 225,000 volumes, including 13,000 rare books, 40,000 volumes of magazines and newspapers, 5,000 volumes of militaria and 15,000 museum catalogues. The public reference library

272-754: The Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin (equivalent to the Landtag of other federal states), which also controls their policy guidelines and is able to enforce resignation by a motion of no confidence . The governing mayor is entitled to appoint and release the senators of the government. The seat of the Senate is the city hall, Rotes Rathaus , in Mitte . As capital of the Kingdom of Prussia , Berlin received its first Lord Mayor ( Oberbürgermeister ) according to

306-520: The Berlin House of Representatives approved the opening of the memorial on the anniversary of the day that the Berlin Wall fell. By 2013, an extension was to be completed. Original relics of the border were to be shown, with missing parts marked in steel on the ground. The memorial was to be divided into four areas: At the corner of Gartenstraße and Bernauer Straße , a visitor centre

340-580: The Prussian reforms after the retreat of the Napoleonic occupation troops in 1809, approved by King Frederick William III . He served as head of the city council called Magistrat . The two-stage administration and the office of the boroughs' mayors were implemented in the course of the wide-ranging incorporations by the 1920 Greater Berlin Act . During the Allied occupation after World War II ,

374-598: The SED Lord Mayor Friedrich Ebert, Jr. in East Berlin already on 30 November 1948. West Berlin introduced its own constitution ( Verfassung von Berlin ), accounting for the changed facts, with effect of 1 October 1950. This constitution provided for the renaming of the city parliament to " Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin ", of the city government into "Senate of Berlin" and the head of government into "Governing Mayor of Berlin". Following

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408-645: The Spree from Museum Island . The museum's attached Exhibition Hall was designed by I. M. Pei in the late 20th century. The Zeughaus is closed for renovation, while the Exhibition Hall remains open. The German Historical Museum is under the legal form of a foundation registered by the Federal Republic of Germany. Its highest-ranking body is the Board of Trustees (Kuratorium) with representatives of

442-640: The DHM. And thus the Zeughaus of 1695 – the oldest building on Unter den Linden – became the seat of the German Historical Museum. The first exhibitions were shown in the Zeughaus in September 1991. The DHM began expanding its collections shortly after its founding. Opening in December 1994, the former Permanent Exhibition, then entitled German History in Images and Testimonials , presented an initial cross-section of

476-563: The Italian architect Aldo Rossi in 1988. However, in 1989 the fall of the Berlin Wall led to a change of plans: on the day of reunification 3 October 1990, the Federal Government transferred the collection and premises of the former Museum für Deutsche Geschichte (Museum for German History) to the DHM; the last government of the GDR had already dissolved that museum in September 1990 and made its property and contents available to

510-475: The Zeughaus by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel on 2 June 2006. As of 30 December 2008 the DHM assumed the legal form of a Public Law Foundation of the Federal Government (Stiftung öffentlichen Rechts des Bundes). Founded in 2009 to establish a centre for the remembrance and documentation of flight and expulsion, the Stiftung Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung (Foundation Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation)

544-503: The acronym DHM , is a museum in Berlin, Germany devoted to German history . It describes itself as a place of "enlightenment and understanding of the shared history of Germans and Europeans". It is often viewed as one of the most important museums in Berlin and is one of the most frequented. The museum is located in the 17th-century Zeughaus (armoury) on the Unter den Linden , just across

578-545: The building. It is a listed building , owing to its interior design being an example of early 1960s architecture. Its main aim is to bring together historical and film-historical questions in a programme that is marked by film series to accompany exhibitions as well as thematic retrospectives. Since 2004 and as of 2022 the Berlin International Film Festival has used Zeughauskino a venue for "Retrospective and Homage" screenings. In 2015,

612-619: The city assembly ( Stadtverordnetenversammlung ) elected the Social Democratic politician Ernst Reuter as Lord Mayor on 24 June 1947, who, however, did not obtain the affirmation by the Allied Kommandatura of Berlin due to Soviet reservations. Following the Communist putsch in Berlin's city government in September 1948, a separate city parliament (still named Stadtverordnetenversammlung von Groß-Berlin )

646-411: The city's division from 13 August 1961 to 9 November 1989 and of the victims of communist tyranny"). The documentation centre is located on the other side of Bernauer Straße . It contains seminar rooms and exhibitions. The building includes a five-story observation tower. The Chapel of Reconciliation was designed by architects Rudolf Reitermann and Peter Sassenroth as a church and is oval in shape with

680-411: The collection with more than 2000 exhibits. The façade of the Zeughaus was restored between 1994 and 1998 on the basis of historical documents. The building was closed from 1998 until 2003 while extensive restoration measures were carried out by the architectural office of Winfried Brenne. In the course of the construction of the new adjacent museum hall by I. M. Pei between 1998 and 2003, glass roofing

714-641: The database. It currently comprises around 500,000 objects and provides digital photos of some 70 percent of these objects. Reproduction rights for commercial purposes are managed by the DHM picture archive, which charges industry-standard usage fees. In cooperation with the Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Bonn the German Historical Museum operates a wide-ranging Internet service called LeMO (Lebendiges virtuelles Museum Online, or Living virtual Museum Online), with information on German history from 1871 to

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748-655: The federal government, the German Bundestag (Parliament) and the governments of the German Länder , or states. The museum was founded on 28 October 1987, on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin ; it was inaugurated in the Reichstag building in former West Berlin . After the success of an exhibition on Prussia , which was shown in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in 1981,

782-421: The founding of the DHM. The core of the museum's brief was to present German history in an international context. Multi-perspective perceptions aimed to encourage an understanding of the viewpoint of others in order to allow for a high level of reflection on history and culture in a time of the internationalisation of everyday life and the globalisation of work and commerce. On 28 July 1987, the partnership agreement

816-444: The museum started a new project for Arabic- and Persian-speaking refugees and other Muslim visitors titled " Multaka - Museum as Meeting Point". This intercultural project organizes guided tours for refugees and migrants designed and offered for free by specially trained guides. The visitor-centered discussions with migrants in their language are focused on the historical origin and history of acquisition of cultural objects, including

850-544: The new constitution representatives were elected on 3 December 1950 and the new parliament re-elected Ernst Reuter as head of city government on 18 January 1951, with Reuter then adopting the new title. From 1951 to 1990, during the Cold War , the governing mayor was the head of government in West Berlin with his seat at Rathaus Schöneberg , while East Berlin de jure remained under Soviet occupation and de facto became

884-487: The office is the equivalent of the ministers president of the other German states, except the states of Hamburg and Bremen , where the heads of government are called "First Mayor" and "President of the Senate and Mayor", respectively. The title Governing Mayor of Berlin is the equivalent of Lord Mayor in the meaning of an actual executive leader. According to the Berlin Constitution, the governing mayor

918-563: The present. More than 30,000 HTML pages, 165,000 pictures as well as audio and video clips are available on the Web. Governing Mayor of Berlin The governing mayor ( German : Regierender Bürgermeister ) of Berlin is the head of government , presiding over the Berlin Senate . As Berlin is an independent city as well as one of the constituent states of Germany ( Bundesländer ),

952-463: The then Governing Mayor of (West) Berlin , Richard von Weizsäcker , commissioned four prominent historians – Hartmut Boockmann , Eberhard Jäckel , Hagen Schulze and Michael Stürmer – to prepare a memorandum, which appeared in January 1982 under the title Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. The project enjoyed great support from Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl , who termed the founding of

986-614: The visitors' own understanding of their country's cultural heritage . In 2019 the four founding museums in Berlin joined six similar museums in the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece and Switzerland, creating the international Multaka network. The German Historical Museum has the most extensive object database of all museums in Germany that can be consulted on the Internet. The collections of the museum are recorded and administered in

1020-488: The west, a wall built from L-elements was lined by a sandy section, a lighted Kolonnenweg , a signal fence, and an inner wall. Finally a tower was built within the complex. The area is not accessible to visitors; both ends of the original wall are closed by stainless steel. The northern wall bears the inscription " In Erinnerung an die Teilung der Stadt vom 13. August 1961 bis zum 9. November 1989 und zum Gedenken an die Opfer kommunistischer Gewaltherrschaft " ("In memory of

1054-466: Was once more installed above the Schlüterhof, the inner courtyard with the masks by Andreas Schlüter . The new building by I. M. Pei with a surface area of 2,700 m (29,000 sq ft) on four floors, and structurally engineered by Leslie E. Robertson Associates, was opened for temporary exhibitions in 2003. The Permanent Exhibition German History in Images and Artefacts was inaugurated in

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1088-523: Was opened. The outdoor area of the memorial west of Berlin Nordbahnhof was transformed into an Erinnerungslandschaft (memorial landscape). In 2006 there were over 220,000 visitors to the documentation centre, which is part of the memorial. Part of the memorial is located on Ackerstraße . The memorial includes a 60-metre (200 ft) long section of the wall as it was when the Wall fell. Seen from

1122-401: Was set up, however, de facto only competent for the western occupation sectors of what was to become West Berlin was elected on 5 December 1948, electing two days later a separate city government and Ernst Reuter Lord Mayor for West Berlin. The Soviet administration had officially deposed the previous elected government for all of Berlin with effect only in the eastern sector and had installed

1156-589: Was signed between the Federal Republic of Germany and the state of (West) Berlin concerning the establishment of the temporary trusteeship of the German Historical Museum as a private limited company. Originally the museum was to be located near the Reichstag Building at the Spreebogen, the government complex at the bend of the River Spree. The architecture competition for the project was won by

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