
offered by the Hamburg State and University Library
13 May 2011 marked the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the current main building of the University of Hamburg on Edmund-Siemers-Allee. On the same day, the programme begun in 1999 to name its seven lecture halls after outstanding academics expelled during the Nazi era was completed. (The speeches given on this occasion are documented in Hamburger Universitätsreden Neue Folge 18, 100 Jahre Hauptgebäude der Universität Hamburg). So this book is published for a double occasion, which, in addition to an introduction to the multifaceted history of the building, for the first time gathers portraits of the seven namesakes of the lecture halls: biographical and werkanalytical approaches to the philosopher Ernst Cassirer, the art historian Erwin Panofsky, the Germanist Agathe Lasch, the mathematician Emil Artin, the jurist Magdalene Schoch, the international law expert and peace researcher Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the social economist Eduard Heimann. Together with the "Stolpersteine" (stumbling stones) laid in front of the Kuppelbau in 2010, the lecture hall names form an ensemble through which the main building also represents the University of Hamburg as a central place of remembrance in a special way.
The film "BLICK RICHTEN" by the Media Competence Centre of the University of Hamburg is complementary to the book.