Werner Händler

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Werner Händler: A Voice of the GDR

Werner Händler (1920-2008) was an important radio journalist of the German Democratic Republic. He worked his entire professional life for the radio of the German Democratic Republic. As a political commentator, foreign and Bonn correspondent, he explained the world to his GDR audience and the GDR to foreign listeners*. Händler saw himself as a political journalist of the GDR. In doing so, Händler always remained true to the SED party line.

The cemetery of Rodenberg

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In 1830, a plot of land of about 1500 square meters on the town beach, at the "Kilianskammer", on today's street "Am Judenfriedhof", was acquired and the cemetery was established. He also served the Jews of the neighboring villages as a burial ground, today there are 99 tombstones preserved, making it the largest Jewish cemetery in the Schaumburg region.