​About The House
The House of Democracy and Human Rights (Haus der Demokratie und Menschenrechte, HdDM) stands as a symbol of the peaceful revolution of 1989 in Germany. It played a pivotal role in representing the citizen movements that emerged during this period and became a space for public discourse and activism. Today, the HdDM continues to serve as a hub for democratic engagement, civil rights, and human rights initiatives.
The citizens' movements of the peaceful revolution of autumn 1989 are represented in the German public by three legacies: the draft constitution of the Central Round Table, the House of Democracy and last but not least the symbolic value of the name Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.
Even though the names "Bündnis 90" and "Die Grünen" by far do not cover the entire spectrum of the organisations represented in the House of Democracy, one thing is expressed in their combination: the aim of the citizen movement is not to artificially prolong its special and parallel existence caused by the circumstances of autumn 1989, but to participate together and in new structures in the political discourse in the new all-German democracy in order to intervene in it with their experiences.
Under pressure from the major West German parties, the draft constitution of the Central Round Table was not able to play the role in the unification process it was intended to play. But it is precisely for this reason that this draft constitution with its Article 132, which refers to the German unification process under Article 23 of the Basic Law, is a permanent monument to the democratic deficits of a purely administrative unification process that was carried out via a monetary union. For the same reason, this draft constitution became the stimulus for the first all-German citizens' movement, the Kuratorium für einen "demokratisch verfassten Bund deutscher Länder" (Board of Trustees for a "democratically constituted federation of German Länder"), founded in June 1990.



