Alexandra Hildebrandt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Alexandra Hildebrandt

German museum director

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1959

Place of Birth: Kiev, Ukraine

Profession: writer, author, artist, museum director

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Alexandra Hildebrandt (born Alexandra Weissmann on 27 February 1959 in Kiev) is a German artist, author, political activist and human rights activist.
She is currently director of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum and the chair of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft 13.
August Association.
In 1995, she married the museum's other co-founder and former director Rainer Hildebrandt, and they remained married until his death in 2004.
She is internationally noted for leading the construction of the Freedom Memorial, which was controversially demolished in 2005.
The focus of Alexandra Hildebrandt's work is the preservation and advancement of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, the rehabilitation of the victims of the GDR-Regime, and the clarification of more destinies of refugees who suffered death at the East-West border.
Furthermore, she takes a stand for the worldwide non-violent struggle for human rights, which was a matter very close to her late husbands heart.
In 2004 she endowed the international human rights award, the Dr.
Rainer Hildebrandt Medal, which is given annually in recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitment to human rights.In 2017 Alexandra had her seventh child when she was 58 and already a grandma.