The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Colegio Aleman Alexander von Humboldt in Lomas Verdes 1 segment from Waldemarstraße in Kreuzberg The Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt in Mexico City is one of the largest German schools abroad. Its Executive Board Member, Gerhart E. Reuss, formerly helped to build the Volkswagen plant in Puebla. In the beginning of the 1990s, he was enthusiastic about […]
Location: German school in Xochimilco 1 segment from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg The Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt in Mexico City is one of the largest German schools abroad. Its Executive Board Member, Gerhart E. Reuss, formerly helped to build the Volkswagen plant in Puebla. In the beginning of the 1990s, he was enthusiastic about the Berlin Wall sell of and […]
Location: Jamaica Defence Force 1 segment World Championships in Athletics, Berlin 2009: Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprint star, left no chance to the competitors. The reward: a new world record, medals and a gift by the then mayor Klaus Wowereit – a Wall segment with a personal graffito. Today, Bolts extremely heavy souvenir from Berlin is standing […]
Location: Plaza de Berlín 3 segments It was an idea of Manfred Kratz, the then chairman of the German-Guatemalan Chamber of Commerce, to erect a Wall monument on the Plaza de Berlín. In 1991, the Berlin Senate therefore provided three Wall segments which should be integrated into a total work of art. Unfortunately, planning, financing and the work on […]
Location: garden of Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1 segment This Berlin Wall segment was set up in 1994 in the garden of the Palacio San Martin at the Freedom Square. It was a gift by Hans-Dietrich Genscher, former German Foreign Minister and honorary citizen of Costa Rica. Bernd Niehaus Quesada was the recipient, Genscher’s Costa Rican counterpart […]
Location: in front of the German Embassy 1 segment from Waldemarstraße/ Leuschnerdamm, Kreuzberg Inspired by the events in 1990, Chilean students wanted to bring a piece of the Berlin Wall to Chile. Since they lacked the financial means for transportation, the German Embassy subsidized. In 1992, both involved parties arranged an exhibition at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. […]
Location: private property in Lyford Clay (Nygård Cay)1 segment from Potsdamer Platz Auctioned in Monte Carlo in 1990, a segment of the Berlin Wall found a new home on the island of New Providence in the Bahamas. The buyer and installer was Peter J. Nygård, a Finnish-Canadian textile entrepreneur and philanthropist, who had the segment erected […]
Location: Garden of the Foreign Ministry, Palacio San Martin 1 segment Donated by Berlin Senate on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the fall of the Wall, expressing the German-Argentine frienship. Click to enlarge: Photo above and background:© Andres Snitcofsky/Twitter
Location: in the lobby of Editoria Perfil 8 segments Editoria Perfil is the largest Hispanic publishing house with numerous newspapers and magazine. Immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the publishing house wanted to get some parts of it as lasting witnesses of the historic event. Jorge Fontevecchia, CEO of the Perfil group, recalls: […]
Location: private garden of Allianz SE, Headquarters, Koeniginstraße at the English Garden 2 segments During the years before the Second World War, the Munich-based Allianz insurance had a good thriving location in Berlin like many other companies too. Through the turmoil of war and the Soviet occupation this location was lost. Insurance activities in East […]
