Commemoration ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the Berlin Wall
Germany, Berlin, 13.08.2011. Commemoration ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall at the Gedenkstaette Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Memorial) on Bernauer Strasse in Berlin on 13.08.2011. First row left to right: Bernd Neumann (CDU), Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, Richard von Weiszaecker, former President, Klaus Wowereit (SPD), the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Angela Merkel (CDU), Chancellor Bettina Wulff, Christian Wulff (CDU), Federal President, Dr. Axel Klausmeier, Director of the Berlin Wall Foundation, Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammer (CDU), President of the Bundestag, Hannelore Kraft (SPD), Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia and President of Federal Council, Prof. Susanne Baer, judge of the Constitutional Court (First Senate), Guido Westerwelle, Foreign Minister, Freya Klier, GDR civil rights activist, Mattias Platzeck und Karin Seidel-Kalmutzki