Commemoration Monument for Georg Luger

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Dear Members,
As collectors who care about guns and history you have all heard of Georg Luger. Georg Johann Luger, a native Austrian, had the center of his life here in Berlin, Germany. Here he made the famous design of the Luger pistol. His name is well known all over the world.
Georg Luger died in a small village on the outskirts of Berlin in 1923. He and his wife have been buried in a cemetery of that town. In 1945 their graves were levelled due to the urgent need of gravesites for huge amounts of bodies of German and Russian soldiers. Since that time no more site exists that bears his name.
With a couple of friends we have the opportunity to change that. We conceived of a gravestone with Lugers name and probably some important dates of his life. One option was a gravestone upfront on the grounds of exactly that same cemetery he was originally buried at.
We now have an opportunity to make this reality. Recently I sent emails and letters to well-known Luger researchers, authors, collectors, and historians to ask them for letters of support for this project we could present to the mayor of this town in Germany.
I am now following that up with a request for financial support to make this project a reality with those same people. And I wanted to include the members of this forum and kindly ask for your support as well.
Below is a copy of that letter which includes the information for those that wish to donate. Thank you!

Kind regards,
Wolf-Dietrich Roth



Interessengemeinschaft zur Errichtung eines Gedenksteines für den weltbekannten Waffenkonstrukteur Georg Luger.
(Interest Group for the Establishment of a Commemorative Monument for the Internationally Renowned Handgun Designer Georg Luger)
(Wolf-Dietrich N. Roth, Christian Bogdan, Heinz Krauß)

Dear Sirs,
We recently informed you about our effort to honor Georg Luger here in Berlin, where he accomplished his design of the Luger pistol, and it is now on the verge of success. We give thanks to all who supported us with compassion and their endorsements.
After long lasting consultations, Mr. Ralf Steinbrueck, the Mayor of the Berlin suburb of Schoeneiche, where Georg Luger spent his final years and is his final resting place, has agreed to permit a commemoration stone in the cemetery where Luger and his wife were interred (attached is a scan of the Mayor´s letter). The actual gravesite was levelled during the final days of World War II, and replaced by mass graves for those sacrificed in the defense of the Capital.
A space for the Luger commemoration stone is now offered to us not far from the originally assumed grave location of Georg Luger and directly opposite the official local War Graves memorial.
All is prepared!
Yet, the details of a dignified commemoration monument will determined by the financial means at our disposal. It includes the purchase of the space for 25 years and the purchase of the commemoration stone. We are therefore appealing to internationally renowned Luger collectors, researchers, authors, and all those who are interested in the support of our endeavor. We are a private association. So we cannot guarantee that your potential donation will be tax-deductible in your country.
The offer for the space is based on a limited time frame and only available until the 30th of April 2018. We therefore appeal to you to inform us as soon as possible in advance whether you will be able to donate, and if so, to what extent. If you trust in us you can transfer the amount you want to donate to the bank account below. We hereby guarantee to you a refund, and will transfer the exact donated amount back to you if the project fails. I am appointed to manage a discretionary bank account to accept donations. Bank statements will be published regularly.
We will be glad to honor each and every donation with a Personal Certificate and we plan, if desired, to publish the names of those that donate in the professional German journals like “dwj” and “Visier”.
We ask you for your written response not later than the 30th of April 2018.

We thank you in advance

For the interest group:
Wolf-Dietrich Nikolaus Roth

Berlin, 04.05.2018

00493074302052
00491723108208

Attachment (letter of the Mayor of Schoeneiche)

Bank account:
Wolf-Dietrich Nikolaus Roth
Berliner Sparkasse IBAN: DE38 1005 0000 1068 1737 49 BIC: BELADEBEXXX