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The Moltke Monument can refer to any number of monuments dedicated to the various members of the Moltke family, a prominent German noble family. The most famous member of this family is Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (1800–1891), who served as the Chief of Staff of the Prussian General Staff from 1857 to […]

The Martin Luther statue in Berlin is a bronze statue of Martin Luther, the reformer. The statue is located in the heart of Berlin and captures Luther’s determination, resilience, and commitment to his cause. It serves as a reminder of his unwavering faith (Original Berlin Tours). The statue was erected in 1895 and it stands

The Rufer statue, also known as “Der Rufer” (The Caller), is a bronze sculpture created by Gerhard Marcks in 1967. The statue stands about 200 meters in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. The woman in the statue is depicted shouting, with her hands next to her face (TripAdvisor). The quotation “I wander

The Lion Fighter, also known as Löwenkämpfer, is a bronze equestrian statue created by Albert Wolff in 1858. It is installed outside the Altes Museum in Berlin, Germany. The sculpture depicts a man seated on a rearing horse with a roaring lion lying just beneath the horse, reaching up and clawing the front flank of

Gustav Seitz (11 September 1906 – 26 October 1969) was a German sculptor and artist Seitz’s sculptural legacy includes a number of female nudes with a particular focus on a range of differently posed squatting figures. On occasion he peppered his trademark realism with elements of humour. There were also a number of celebrity portrait

Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt (13 February 1849 – 3 January 1922) was a German impostor who, in 1906, masqueraded as a Prussian military officer, rounded up a number of soldiers under his “command”, and “confiscated” more than 4,000 marks from a municipal treasury. Although he served two years in prison, he became a folk hero as The Captain of Köpenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick (help·info)) and was pardoned by

Heinrich Zille Park on Bergstraße in Berlin’s Mitte borough was named for him by the City of Berlin in 1948 and formerly featured a statue of him from the workshop of Paul Kentsch, but the statue’s whereabouts are unknown and the park is now a children’s adventure playground. There is a Zille Memorial statue created in 1964–65 by Heinrich

Elise Meitner  7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was a leading Austrian-Swedish physicist who was one of those responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on radioactivity, she discovered the radioactive isotope protactinium-231 in 1917. In 1938, Meitner and her nephew, the physicist Otto Robert Frisch, discovered nuclear fission. She was praised by Albert Einstein as the

Marx-Engels-Forum is a public park in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It is named for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and regarded as two of the most influential people in the socialist movement. The park was created by the authorities of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1986. In 1977, the sculptor Ludwig Engelhardt was