Burghausen citizens already made contact with the Muehldorf society Für das Erinnern – KZ-Gedenkstätte Mühldorfer Hart e.V. years ago. Commemorative concerts have been held at the site since 2013 to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January. At the beginning of 2024, the Burghausen local group was founded and joined the society as a sign of solidarity for this important issue. The central memorial site for Burghausen is the Botanical Garden.
In Burghausen, three murdered Wacker employees are commemorated. In order to prevent the destruction of the plant in the last days of the war, they had tried to disarm the plant’s Nazi rulers and instead armed the emergency workforce and occupied the telephone exchange and important access roads. On the orders of Muehldorf NSDAP district leader Fritz Schwägerl, they were executed by shooting in the neck behind the Wacker management building on April 28, 1945.
The Botanical Garden of Burghausen on the Ludwigsberg also commemorates the Jewish Galitzenstein family, who were subjected to anti-Semitic harassment after Hitler came to power in 1933. Dr. Eugen Galitzenstein, chief chemist at the Wacker chemical company, was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp for six weeks and subjected to the terror of the SS. In June 1939, the Galitzenstein couple were allowed to leave Germany, albeit with the loss of their property.
