Bremen should become a place to commemorate German colonialism

So now not Berlin, where as a visitor you don't know what to do with your own memory, the center is so full of memorials? It should probably be possible in Bremen! It has to go somewhere, a worthy memorial to German colonialism.

After all, the coalition agreement of the current federal government requires the establishment of such a place. Now Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer (independent) found what he was looking for. In the Bundestag's culture committee, he made it clear that in future Germany should commemorate its short but terrible colonial past on the Weser.

Not a bad choice: Hardly any other metropolis in the Empire benefited as much from the German colonies as the old Hanseatic and merchant city. There is a lot of complicated history to be dealt with here and therefore already a specialized and well-developed regional memorial landscape. Weimer obviously wants to join them institutionally.

He has to, because his budget for 2027 does not provide any funds for a national memorial site. Well, Weimer may be able to donate a few euros from the heavily plundered pot for the “Global South,” but Bremen will have to contribute the rest itself if that happens. And that's just for reasons of prestige. In 2019, the then red-red-green government alliance wanted to set up a large documentation center in the city-state. Unfortunately, the project was then forgotten when the Bremen coalition was relaunched in 2023.

Thanks to Wolfram Weimer, Bremen will now not only be able to report enforcement soon, but can even boast of being the German memorial master when it comes to coming to terms with colonialism.