Georg-Elser Memorial

The neon setting "08.11.1939" by the artist Silke Wagner is a monument in honor of Georg Elser. Every evening it shines for a minute between 9:20 p.m. and 9:21 p.m.

Georg-Elser was a German resistance fighter against the National Socialist regime. On November 8, 1939, he carried out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and a large part of the NSDAP executives in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. He wanted to blow up Hitler and his followers with a homemade bomb.

The bomb exploded at 9:20 p.m. as planned. At this time, Adolf Hitler was no longer in the Bürgerbräu, because due to fog he did not leave by plane as planned, and had to switch to a train.

Georg Elser was arrested on the same day on his escape to Switzerland in Constance. On April 9, 1945, a month before the German Reich surrendered and 20 days before the Dachau concentration camp was liberated, Elser was secretly shot.

The monument on the wall of the Turkish school is supposed to symbolize the Elser bomb and lights up for 1 minute at 21:20, the time of the attack.