The Board of Trustees of the memorial Hohenschönhausen has dismissed Hubertus Knabe as the Chairman and Director with immediate effect. The Berlin Senate administration for culture and Europe, announced after an extraordinary meeting of the Board of Trustees on Sunday evening.

The trust relationship between the Board of Trustees and the Board of management is broken to a degree, “which excludes the further perception of the office as the Board of Directors by Dr. Hubertus Knabe.”

So could not return boy’s view of the Senate administration on Monday to his work at the memorial, said the spokesman, Daniel Bartsch on Sunday evening, the German press Agency. Because the decision went beyond the in September, said termination Knabes, as well as his exemption. He had been terminated as a Director, but also as the Board of Directors, with immediate effect, been dismissed. Previously had reported the”Tagesspiegel” and “Berliner Zeitung”.

The Board of Trustees had a boy 31. March 2019 dismissed him until then. Reason is, that he should not have enough against the sexual harassment of women by his Deputy, Helmuth frauendorfer, done. Was triggered by a letter from several employees and interns.

boy rejoiced on Twitter about a return

the memorial Hohenschönhausen

Against his-free position boy had obtained an injunction from the regional court of Berlin. The immediate decision of the Tribunal was received on Friday afternoon. On this Monday, the boy wanted to return to his workplace.

Even early on Sunday morning, he had written, before the decision of the Board of Trustees, on Twitter: “I am pleased that I can devote myself to starting on Monday back to my life task: the processing of the in the GDR injustice.”

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