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Commemoration and wreath-laying ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of the East German uprising of 17 June 1953

Press Release No. 54/2023 of 19 June 2023


On 16 June 2023, the President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, attended a ceremony in the German Bundestag commemorating the 70th anniversary of the uprising in the former German Democratic Republic. On 17 June 2023, he took part in wreath-laying ceremonies at the central memorial site in the Seestraße cemetery in Berlin and at the Postplatz in Görlitz.