Kolonialkriegerdenkmal, monument in Dresden, Germany

The Kolonialkriegerdenkmal was a monument in Dresden built in 1913 at Sachsenplatz. It featured a raised stone base topped with a bronze globe supported by four dolphins and crowned by an eagle with spread wings, surrounded by a metal fence.

Dedicated in 1913, this monument honored Saxon soldiers who died in overseas conflicts. A new plaque was added in 1923 to include those lost in the First World War, but it was dismantled in 1947 because authorities viewed it as glorifying warfare.

The monument served as a place where people honored soldiers who died overseas, keeping their memory alive in the city. The name reflected how important these distant conflicts were to local society at that time.

The monument no longer exists: it was removed on 20 January 1947, so nothing of it stands at Sachsenplatz today. The site is the small park by the Albertbrücke between Sachsenallee and Käthe-Kollwitz-Ufer, where the Palaverhaus wooden structure was placed in 1997. Look for the surviving plaque in a vestibule of the Garnisonskirche in the Albertstadt.

The only surviving piece is a memorial plaque kept in a vestibule of the Garnisonskirche in the Albertstadt district. It lists the names, death dates and regiment numbers of six Saxon colonial soldiers who fell in the former German South-West Africa.