TODAY IN BERLIN: SEEING FOREST THROUGH ONE TREE

March 17

Aerial photo of the park and its surroundings (Hansaviertel) in 1945 by Hein Gorny and Adolph C. Byers.

On March 17, 1949 the first Governing Mayor of West Berlin, Ernst Reuter - the one of the eponymous "Ihr Völker der Welt, schaut auf diese Stadt!" speech - planted the very first gifted tree sapling in the de-forested Berlin’s Tiergarten.