Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde

[1] In 1919, the coffins of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, co-founders of the Communist Party of Germany were buried in a mass grave in a remote section of the cemetery.

[4] Unveiled in 1926, the Monument to the Revolution was erected in front of the mass grave where the coffins of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg had been interred in 1919.

[5][6] The current Memorial to the Socialists (German: Gedenkstätte der Sozialisten) stands close to the cemetery's main gate and was inaugurated by Wilhelm Pieck in 1951.

The central garden roundel is dominated by a porphyry stele or obelisk with the words Die Toten mahnen uns (English: The dead remind us), which is surrounded by 10 graves commemorating foremost socialist leaders, namely: Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Ernst Thälmann, Wilhelm Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Franz Mehring, John Schehr, Rudolf Breitscheid, Franz Künstler (politician) [de], and Otto Grotewohl.

Also in the semi-circular brick wall is a large red marble tablet recording the names of 327 men and women who gave their lives in the cause of fighting Fascism between 1933 and 1945.

Speech at the 1951 Memorial to the Socialists commemorating Rosa Luxemburg , with Honecker , Mielke , and other high-ranking GDR leaders, January 1989
A memorial to the fallen Spartacists , designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1926; after 1935 destroyed by the Third Reich . On the left: Ernst Thälmann
Central garden roundel with porphyry stele and inner circle of 10 graves
Red marble tablet recording the names of 327 men and women who died fighting Fascism between 1933 and 1945
Location of graves (red) in the Memorial to the Socialists proper and in the adjacent Pergolenweg section