Willy Brandt House

Lübeck, Germany

The Willy-Brandt-Haus in Lübeck is a museum and a memorial to the late politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany Federal Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Willy Brandt. The building, a branch of the Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt Foundation based in Berlin, also houses the Office of Monumental Protection of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein. It is the third establishment in the city to honour a Nobel Prize laureate from Lübeck, after the Buddenbrookhaus, which commemorates the Lübeck-born Nobel Prize laureate for Literature Thomas Mann, his brother Heinrich Mann and the other members of the family, and Günter-Grass-Haus, which is dedicated to the Nobel Prize laureate for Literature, painter and sculptor Günter Grass. The director of the Willy-Brandt-Haus is the historian Jürgen Lillteicher. Willy Brandt was not born in the building in the inner city of Lübeck, but in the quarter of St. Lorenz.