Willy Brandt House, Lübeck

The Willy-Brandt-Haus in Lübeck is a museum and a memorial to the late politician Federal Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Willy Brandt, of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).

The Berlin based branch of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation [de] also houses the Office of Monumental Protection of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, in Schleswig-Holstein.

The establishment of a memorial in Willy Brandt's hometown was suggested by Günter Grass, Nobel laureate in literature, who had maintained political ties to him since the 1960s.

It was an assembly house of the Zirkelgesellschaft [de], a fraternity of long-distance merchants, before it became the seat of the Oberappellationsgericht der vier Freien Städte (an appellate court for the cities Bremen, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main and Lübeck) in the 19th century.

In the final, largest room of the exhibition, international themes are presented: Willy Brandt's "global commitment" for the resolution of North-South disparities, the promotion of peace and freedom, and the assertion of human rights.

In addition to its function as a museum and a memorial, the Willy-Brandt-Haus in Lübeck is a place for political education for all school grades[7] and a venue for seminars by contemporary witnesses and panel discussions.