Willy Brandt House in Lübeck

Königstraße 21
D-23552 Lübeck
www.willy-brandt-luebeck.de

Permanent Exhibition “Willy Brandt – A Life for Politics in the 20th Century”
(German and English)

ADMISSION FREE

1 April through 30 December
Open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

1 January through 31 March
Open Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Guided Tours available in English.
Reservation necessary: 0049 (0)30-122425-0
or Email: besucherservice@willy-brandt-luebeck.de

The Hanseatic city of Lübeck is Willy Brandt’s birthplace. Here he spent his childhood, grew up amidst the workers’ movement, at age 15 was already writing articles for the Lübecker Volksboten and, in 1932, passed his final examinations at the Johanneum Reformed Preparatory School. In Lübeck Willy Brandt began his more than six-decade-long struggle for more justice and social democracy. And here in 1933 he had to leave mother and step-grandfather to go into exile in Norway. From Oslo he continued his struggle against National Socialism. Nearly 40 years later, in 1972, the Hanseatic city awarded honorary citizenship to the then Federal Chancellor and Nobel prize recipient.

Each year many thousands of tourists from home and abroad visit the unique Old City of Lübeck. Many among them ask about the memorial site for Willy Brandt. The city’s guests have looked so far in vain for a museum in honour of the great politician and statesman.

All that has changed with the opening of the Willy Brandt House in December 2007. Its centrepiece is a permanent exhibit on Willy Brandt’s life and influence. Further offerings will encompass – in keeping with the political-educational mission of the Foundation – lectures, workshops for school-children, and Seminars for adult political education. Cooperation with local schools is planned to rate as highly in the Willy Brandt House Lübeck as at the Foundation’s headquarters in Berlin.