It’s taken us almost a month to track down what we found, this imposing 20-foot construction worker, standing on a pedestrian path just off buy Karlliebknechstrasse in Berlin’s Mitte district.
He gets no attention in guidebooks, but he’s been there since 1968, measuring some dimension in the distance, as the neighborhood has undergone immense change. Some believe he’s pointed toward the nearby TV Tower that is Germany’s tallest structure.
You’ll note that his left-hand has been popular with passers-by who have rubbed it enough that he’s popularly referred to as Goldfinger!
The statue is the work of sculptor Gerhard Thieme, a leading artistic figure of the DDR and creator of quite a few Berlin monuments.
