Kriegerdenkmal am Galgenberg, War memorial on Galgenberg hill, Hildesheim, Germany

Kriegerdenkmal am Galgenberg is a war memorial in Hildesheim featuring a soldier statue approximately 5.5 meters tall standing on a pedestal. The figure wears a heavy coat and steel helmet, with a pilaster rising behind to form part of the overall composition.

The memorial was erected in 1939 to honor over 4,000 soldiers from an Infantry Regiment who died in World War I. It was built during a period when such monuments were being established across Germany to commemorate the fallen.

The memorial's name refers to the Galgenberg, the hill where it stands. Its original dedication to the 4,165 fallen of Infantry Regiment No. 79 is carved on the rear of the wall, while the front frieze names the regiment's wartime deployment areas. Since 1956, stones flanking it commemorate the fallen of Panzer-Grenadier-Regiment 59 from World War II.

The memorial stands at the end of Feldstraße, whose name refers to the open field the city expanded into in 1877, not to a "field of honour". Between the street's end at Haydnstraße and the monument, the so-called "Acht" is split by Richard-Wagner-Straße into two round lawns, with paths leading around them to the wall. The Bismarck Tower lies 200 m above, behind Mozartstraße.

The soldier's original design by sculptor August Waterbeck called for two steel-helmeted figures standing in comradeship; cost reasons reduced it to one. In 1996 a local newspaper photo showed the statue wearing a second helmet, a toilet bowl placed on its head.