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Donations for the Conservation of the Memorial |
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In the name of the Möltenort U-boat Memorial Foundation, the Submariners Association of Kiel, and the German War Graves Commission we would like to thank all known, and unknown and future friends of the foundation for their donations which enable us to maintain this worthy memorial so exemplarily.
We really appreciate your support. The foundation can finance - straightened also on the future - the maintenance operations and preservation works primarily from the only from the yields of the foundation means. Hence, we ask for donation contributions to the heightening of the foundation means.
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Banking ID |
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IBAN |
BIC |
| Postbank Hamburg |
200 100 20 |
208 316 203 |
DE19 2001 0020 0298 3162 03 |
PBNKDEFF |
| Volksbank Kiel |
210 900 07 |
901 702 02 |
DE49 2109 0007 0090 1702 02 |
GENODEF1KIL |
| Deutsche Bank 24 Kiel |
210 700 24 |
585 018 |
DE16 2107 0024 0058 5018 00 |
DEUTDEDB210 |
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A Place of Memory and Meditation |
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The landmark of the Baltic village Heikendorf, the mighty 4.60 m high eagle on top of the red 15.30 m high Weser sandstone pillar with the submarine-war badge is far visible.
The memorial is located at the narrowest place of the Kiel Fjord. It is the only common memorial of the submarine men of German Navies who left their life on sea.
The great expressiveness of this memorial is stamped in the determining masses by their internal extension. In the semicircle-shaped walk set in the earth, the names of more than 35000 fallen of both world wars are registered on 117 bronze boards after boat names, position and cause of sinking. On the forecourt of the arrangement two glass cabinets contain position plans of the boats lost in the 1st and 2nd world war. The great human tragedy becomes clear to the visitor if he has internalised the endless name chains on the bronze boards with the short, incomplete biography by the birth up to the early death.
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The Möltenort U-boat Memorial Foundation |
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To be able to guarantee permanently maintenance and preservation of the U-boat Memorial at Möltenort, the U-boat Veterans Association of Kiel in 1975 came to the conclusion to found the Möltenort U-boat Memorial Foundation. The members elected a foundation board of directors and an foundation council. These gathered on December 5, 1975 to a meeting in order to found the Möltenort U-boat Memorial Foundation and to decide their statute. At that time an foundation capital 265,000 German Marks were available. Already on December 9, 1975 the foundation business was presented to the ministry of the interior to the approval, and was approved by the Minister of the Interior of the state of Schleswig-Holstein on January 16, 1976 and was published on February 2, 1976 in the official gazette of state of Schleswig-Holstein.
The Möltenort U-boat Memorial Foundation finances their work exclusively from donations. The foundation pursues the purpose, in collaboration with the Submariners Association of Kiel, the German Submariners Association, the municipality of village Heikendorf, the German War Graves Commission, and the Submarine Flotilla of the German Navy to guarantee the maintenance of the U-boat Memorial.
In addition the foundation takes part - within the scope of her financial possibilities - in the architectural maintenance of the memorial site.The foundation is accepted as a public welfare organization. Therefore donations are tax-favoured.
Beside the commitment active Submariners and veterans it is to be owed primarily to a servicing contract of the foundation with the municipality of village Heikendorf that the memorial site is always in cultivated state.
Beside the continuous maintenance numerous change and restoration plans from means of the memorial could be financed. As the latest example the renewal of the eagle on top of the memorial which could be financed predominantly by a generous donation to the foundation is to be mentioned.
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A Memorial for all German Submariners who lost their life at sea |
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Already for many years (since 1983) it is the wish of the U-boat Flotilla of the German Navy that in the memorial a bronze plate is appropriated in memento of the submariners of the German Federal Republic Navy / German Navy who have lost their lives on sea. After many conversations during the last years with the different decision-makers, the foundation agreed to erect a stone for the dead soldiers of submarine "U Hai" (shark) at the memorial, and has decided the installation unanimously. The inspector of the German Navy has appreciated this decision with a letter from 22nd April, 1999 very much, because it also meets the wish of the U-boat men in the navy to think all members of the U-boat weapon who left their life at sea, at the memorial. At the same time the inspector of the Navy has asked the foundation to check with the German War Graves Commission, whether the memorial could be provided with a dedication which encloses all U-boat men of German Navies. In February, 2000 the foundation committees have recommended this proposal unanimously and submits to the presented it to the German War Graves Commission. Already on the 23rd of March, 2000 in Möltenort an agreement about the re-dedication recommended by the foundation (inclusion of the German Navy) was achieved with representatives of the German War Graves Commission. In September, 2000 the already existing bronze plate in the memorial round:
"To the memory of all dead people of the U-boat weapon of both world wars
1914 - 1918 and 1939 - 1945 "
..was substituted by a bonze plate with the following text:
"In honorary memory for the German U-Boat men fallen on sea"
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The German War Graves Commision |
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The non-commercial German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V.) was founded December 16, 1919 out of necessity. It is a humanitarian organization which is charged by the Federal Republic of taking care of registering the German war dead abroad and to ensuring that it is updated and monitored. The German Public Alliance advises relatives of war grave care, supervises public and private sites, supports international cooperation and assists within the sector of war grave care and fostering the engagement of young people in the last resting-place of the war-dead.
The German War Graves Commission is the owner of the U-boat Memorial at Möltenort. If one of your ancestrors is listed on the memorial bronze plates the German War Graves Commision will send you on request and for contribution towards expenses a set of pictures consisting of a photograph of the bronze plate of the submarine with the name of your ancestor, a zoomed photograph with the name of your ancestor and a photograph of the memorial site.
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