Birthplace Hannah Arendt

In the house at Lindener Marktplatz 2 Hannah Arendt was born. There a city plaque honors her life.

The plaque was unveiled on December 4, 2015, the 40th anniversary of Arendt's death, jointly by Lord Mayor Stefan Schostok and Thomas Walter, then head of the youth and social affairs department. Walter, as a private citizen, assumed the costs for the plaque.

The inscription of the city plaque
. "In this house was born the German-American historian and political theorist Hannah Arendt. *Oct. 14, 1906, †Dec. 4, 1975 New York/USA.
Paul and Martha Arendt had moved from East Prussia after their marriage in 1902, first to Hanover and then to the then still independent town of Linden. Paul worked there as an engineer, Johanna was the only child. In 1909 the family moved back to Königsberg after the father fell ill with syphilis. He died in 1913. Johanna was given a liberal upbringing by her mother, especially without the restrictions on girls' education that were typical at the time. Her grandparents imparted to her a liberal Reform Judaism. She saw herself as a Jew, but did not belong to any religious community.
With enormous perceptiveness she completed her school years (1924 Abitur) and her studies of philosophy, theology and Greek philology, which she finished with the dissertation "Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin" (1928 with Karl Jaspers).
An academic future was denied her in Germany. In 1933 she fled to Paris via the Czech Republic. After internment in the French camp of Gurs, she reached New York with her husband and mother via Lisbon in 1941. Her scholarly work is devoted to the origins of total domination and anti-Semitism. In New York she worked as a political journalist and professor of political theory."