Tiergarten City Hall as a Site of Perpetrators and Remembrance

The City Hall building was built between 1935 and 1937 and was the first new local government building in Berlin during the Nazi period (architect: Richard Ermisch). The traces of history within the walls of this building are understood both as a challenge and an opportunity to find new ways of showing Nazi history in the Mitte district. Temporary exhibitions focus on the history of the Moabit district and refer to regional memorial  sites such as the Moabit Freight Station.

The historic mayor’s office

The exhibition “Tiergarten City Hall as a Site of perpetrators and Remembrance” gives insights into the history of the place and discusses ways of interacting with Nazi architecture today. A digital media table in the historic mayor’s office offers additional in-depth information.

The anteroom

Four writers persecuted in Berlin-Tiergarten during the time of the Nazi regime are introduced in the anteroom of the historic mayor’s office: Kurt Tucholsky (1890 – 1935), Musa M. Džalilʹ (1906 – 1944), Albrecht Haushofer (1903 – 1945) and Nelly Sachs (1891 – 1970).

The corridor

The exhibition “A Systematic Approach to the Deportations. The network in the Berlin district of Mitte” informs about the infrastructure of the Nazi deportation network in today’s district of Mitte.

Address:  Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin, 
2. OG (2nd floor), Raum 234 (Room 234). Phone: +49 (30) 9018-32023

Opening hours:  Monday to Friday, 10.00 to 18.00. Entrance is free.