The Gestapo headquarters for the administrative district of Kassel was located in the former police headquarters at Königstor from 1933 to 1938. It is the only surviving site of the Gestapo office in Kassel, whose up to 250 employees monitored over a million inhabitants between 1933 and 1945 and persecuted over 10,000, thousands of whom were murdered. Comparable historical sites have long been places of learning and remembrance elsewhere - for example in Halle, Stuttgart or Cologne. But Kassel is struggling. The erection of a memorial plaque met with years of resistance at the end of the 1980s. The state of Hesse is considering selling the building. Since summer 2023, an initiative has been criticizing the planned privatization and calling for a public memorial and place of learning.

With Sven Schoeller (Lord Mayor of the City of Kassel, tbc), Heidrun Reisch (Landesbetrieb Bau und Immobilien Hessen, tbc), Michael Fuchs (Studierendenwerk Kassel), Ann Katrin Düben (Director of the Breitenau Memorial)

Please note: The lecture will be held in German.

The lecture will take place in person, will be recorded and will soon be available as a video here.