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Otto-Wels-Platz

Otto Wels

Berlin 1873 - Paris 1939
German politician; his 1933 speech in the Reichstag in opposition to Hitler and against the Enabling Act marked the end of the Weimar Republic prior to the Act passing into law
(Wikipedia)

Heinrich Brockmeier
1990

Description

Free standing commemorative plaque with portrait.

Inscription(s)

OTTO WELS
sozialdemokratischer partei- und fraktionsvorsitzender
in der letzten freien rede im reichstag
vor ausschaltung des parlamentes
durch die nationalsozialisten
am 23. märz 1933

[portrait]
1873-1939

"KEIN ERMÄCHTIGUNGSGESETZ GIBT
IHNEN DIE MACHT, IDEEN, DIE EWIG UND
UNZERSTÖRBAR SIND, ZU VERNICHTEN."
"FREIHEIT UND LEBEN KANN MAN UNS
NEHMEN, DIE EHRE NICHT."

OTTO WELS
Social democratic party and parliamentary group leader
in the last free speech in the Reichstag
before the parliament was shut down
by the National Socialists
on 23 March 23, 1933

[portrait]
1873-1939

"No Enabling Law can give
you the power to destroy ideas, which are
eternal and indestructible."
"You can take our lives and our freedom,
but you cannot take our honour."

Sculptor

Heinrich Brockmeier (Berlin 1938), German sculptor of Recklinghausen, married with Uschi Klaas (Website).

Sources & Information

Stadt Herten, Kunstwerken im öffentlichen Raum, Sept. 2012 (PDF online).
Wikipedia, Liste von Kunstwerken im öffentlichen Raum in Herten.

Locatie (N 51°35'37" - E 7°8'10") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: denw1010; Photograph: 1 August 2022
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