Monument of the Revolutionary Sailors
Rostock, Germany
June 18, 2009, 16:52 local time
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© 2009 Reinhard Schmolze, All Rights Reserved.
Caption
Each era possesses it's own ideals and conceptions whether certain events in history ought to be considered worthy of commemoration and should consequently be moulded into a monument.In November 1918 sailors of the German Navy started an insurgency which led to the German Revolution of 1918-1919. The revolution was put down and then succeeded by the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the occupation – in Rostock by the Soviet armed forces – and finally in 1949 the foundation of the German Democratic Republic.
The insurgency of 1918 is the theme of this monument, which was not built until 1977 – during the time of the German Democratic Republic.
On one side of the base there is a relief by Reinhard Dietrich, showing political events of the early 20th Century. Next to it there is a citation from an article by Karl Liebknecht. On the top rises a sculpture by Wolfgang Eckardt, cast in bronze in Leningrad, depicting two men rushing forward on a heap of ruins.
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