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- Renaming Von-Trotha-Strasse in Munich. Since 2006 Hererostrasse commemorates the anticolonial rebellion of the Herero 1904-1905 against the German colonial power in 'German Southwest Africa' and the genocid against the Herero People, committed by the commander of the German 'Schutztruppe' Lothar von Trotha.
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- Performance in the City of Bielefeld 06/21/2006: In cooperation with Bielefeld Postkolonial the 'founder' of the colony 'German East Africa' Carl Peters is set in scene by Tunneltheater. Photo: Manfred Horn
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- Since 1895 the street called Gröbenufer in Berlin-Kreuzberg was commemorating Otto Friedrich von der Gröben (1657-1728) who - on behalf of the elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg - founded the slave fort Großfriedrichsburg at the Ghanain coast. February 27, 2010 marks the end of the Berlin Africa Conference 125 years ago. Commemorating this, over 70 Berlin based NGOs succeeded in renaming
- Gröbenufer to May-Ayim-Ufer, honouring May Ayim (1960-1996), poet and activist for the Black Community movement. For the very first time a street in Germany is now honouring an Afro-German personality.
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- Bietigheim-Bissingen 2009: Mayor Jürgen Kessing changing the street signs. Photo: Reinhard Hirth
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- The mountain peak Agassizhorn in the Swiss Alps with almost 4000 meters altitude shall be renamed in Rentyhorn commemorating Renty, a Congolese who was deported as a slave to South Carolina, USA.
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- A square, named after the Swiss natural scientist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), who was the mastermind of segregation and apartheid in the USA.
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- The leader of the Boers and spearhead of 'white supremacy' in Southern Africa, Paul 'Ohm' Krüger (1825-1904) was honoured with a street name in St. Gallen, Switzerland. 20 years ago the antiapartheid movement in St. Gallen filed a petition for renaming the street. Since 6/8/2009 the street is now called Dürrenmattstraße, commemorating the Swiss novelist. At the occasion of the renaming: The Embassy Counsellor Solomon Tshivhula and the former Member of the National Assembly, Pia Hollenstein of the Green Party. More information: www.louverture.ch
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- Place Pury in Neuchatel, Switzerland where "still today David de Pury (17091786) ... is considered a generous benefactor. ... The merchant and banker in Lisbon, De Pury, was much more involved in the slave trade than many citizens of Neuchatel like to believe." 'Schweizer Sklavenhandel: Die Schweizer Sklavenhändler' 30.06.2004
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- The NGO group DiversCité in Bordeaux
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- Rue Desse in Bordeaux, named after Pierre Desse (1760-1829), captain of several slave ships.
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- Rue Kervégan in Nantes honours the mayor and slave trader Christophe-Clair Danyel de Kervégan (1735-1817).
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- DiversCité protest poster: "Bordeaux, port of slave traders, remember your history."
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- Wißmannstraße in Hamburg-Wandsbek, honouring Hermann Wißmann (1853-1905), 'explorer' in Africa for the Belgian king Leopold II, later colonial gouverneur in 'German East Africa'. Wißmannstraße was given its name not earlier than 1950's.
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- Dominikweg in Hamburg-Wandsbek, honouring Hans Dominik (1870-1910), army officer in the then German colony Cameroon, known for his utmost brutality against the African people. Also this street got its name in 1950's.
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- Van der Smissen chartered slave ships to West Africa and the Caribic on behalf of the slave trader Heinrich Carl von Schimmelmann (1724-1782). At the river Elbe in Hamburg-Altona a street name still honours the shipowner.
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- Colonial street names in Hamburg, Germany
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