Hello - my name is Martin.
Great to see you here !
Your companion for your private Berlin tours
Martin Rust M.A. grew up in the Dusseldorf/Cologne area of the Western state of Northrhine-Westphalia. He completed his university education at the Universitiy of Bochum and Berlin's Free University with a Grand State Exam in History and English and a master's degree in History, Political Science and Communication. He also was enrolled and took classes in International Law for two years. Equally important for him were the almost two years he spent at the University of Redlands, California, and at other places in the United States.
In the early 1990s Martin Rust worked in the formerly Communist parts of Eastern Germany in various fields together with thousands of other West Germans helping to reshape society there. In the second half of that decade he worked as a free-lance lecturer for political institutions and as an aide to the Berlin "Senator" (Secretary) for Cultural Affairs. Since 2002 he has worked for the Department of Public Relations and Information of the German Parliament. He is actively engaged in Berlin city politics.
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In 1999 Martin Rust moved to...
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The Wilhelmstrasse
Between 1838 and 1945 this Berlin street, located right by the American and the British Embassy, was like London's Downing Street or Paris' Quai d' Orsay the "lane of power" for Prussia and - since 1871 - for Germany. All the important government agencies were situated there, including the Presidential Palace during the era of the Weimar Republic and - a little later - Hitler's "Reichskanzlei" (Reich Chancellery). After 1945 the street marked the dividing line between the Communist world and the West.
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| Nowadays it is mostly a residential street with few remnants of its historic past in the immediate vicinity of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial. |
