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The First Free Elections to the Volkskammer, in the Outskirts of Berlin, January to March 1990: CDU display case "Eberhard Diepgen" [38/207]

OBJECT INFORMATION

Info

January 1 - March 31 1990
Schildow, Hauptstraße 20
Created By: Ralf Skiba

License: Creative Commons License

A wooden display case - affixed between two windows of the Catholic rectory St. Katharine - featuring a handwritten and printed CDU campaign poster announcing a visit from Eberhard Diepgen; between 1984 and 2001, Diepgen was mayor of Berlin for 15 years and 5 months, thereby becoming the longest running mayor in the city's history. The Fall of the Berlin Wall (9 November 1989) and German unification (3 October 1990) occurred during his "governmental pause" from March 1989 to January 1991. (Wikipedia-Artikel, translated and retrieved on 1 February 2010)

Depicts

election poster, handmade medium, logo, motto, national colours, photography, portrait, showcase

Context

election campaign, Volkskammer election

People/Organizations

Alliance for Germany, Eberhard Diepgen

Text in image

Eberhard Diepgen / kommt am / Freitag, dem 9.März, 16.30 Uhr / nach Berlin-Pankow / Marktplatz, Johannes-R.-Becher-Straße / Einheit und soziale Sicherheit / Allianz für Deutschland / DA / DSU / CDU / Christliche Demokratische Union Deutschlands - Otto-Nuschke-Straße 50, 1080 Berlin

- Sicherheit und / Erfüllung im Alter / - Mehr Fürsorge und Ge- / rechtigkeit für Senioren / - Menschenwürdige Be- / dingungen zum Lebens- / abend

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Memory

"I was born in Berlin and watched the Wall being built from my classroom in the district of Wedding. I found it quite remarkable that the GDR, the German 'Democratic!' Republic, held its first democratic elections on 18 March 1990 only to dissolve itself shortly afterwards. In the run-up to the election, I spent nearly every weekend from January to March 1990 touring the area around Berlin with my family, and taking photographs of the election campaign, posters, and everything else that had to do with the elections."

Ralf Skiba (West Berlin)