Gedenkstätte Ernst Thälmann - Hamburg, Deutschland
N 53° 35.710 E 009° 59.053
32U E 565138 N 5938931
Gedenkstätte für den deutschen Politiker Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann im Hamburger Stadtteil Eppendorf
Waymark Code: WMWTX0
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Date Posted: 10/14/2017
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Memorial to the German politician Ernst Johannes Fritz Thälmann in the Eppendorf district of Hamburg
In the corner house Tarpenbekstr. 66 in Hamburg-Eppendorf, Ernst Thälmann - then working as a KPD chairman mainly in Berlin - moved in 1929 with his family. The Thälmanns had on the second floor a three-room apartment with a view to Kegelhofstraße. Thälmann lived here until his arrest on 3 March 1933, Rosa Thälmann until his own arrest in 1944. Since Rosa and Irma Thälmann had been living in Singen since 1940, they had taken in 1943 after the heavy air raids on Hamburg bombed comrades. Since then, communists have been living there as tenants. Under the Thälmann apartment was the workshop of shoemaker Ehmke for 50 years. Thälmanns had also had their shoes repaired. When Ehmke moved to his shop in Kegelhofstr. 5, she was hired by Waltraud Paasch and Walter Schwind.
18 Aug. 1969: "The memorial place Ernst Thälmann" is opened at a rally by Hein Fink, former chairman of the KPD Hamburg. The chairman of the DKP, Kurt Bachmann, speaks in front of Thälmann-Haus to several thousand Hamburgers.
Ernst Thälmann (16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic. He was arrested by the Gestapo in 1933 and held in solitary confinement for eleven years, before being shot in Buchenwald on Adolf Hitler's orders in 1944.
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Location: Ernst-Thälmann-Platz
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