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Reichstag fire

arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933
Event Arson Q153992
Reichstag fire
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Facts

12 properties
Instance of
arson
Country
Weimar Republic[2]
Location
Reichstag[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 52.519°, 13.376°
Damaged
Reichstag[11]
Described by source
Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[9]
Located in/on physical feature
Reichstag[6]
Native label
Reichstagsbrand[10]
Participant
Marinus van der Lubbe[7]
Point in time
February 27, 1933[5]
Significant event
Leipzig Trial[8]
Target
Reichstag[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Reichstagsbrand en Reichstag fire ar حريق الرايخستاج cs Požár Říšského sněmu cs Požár Reichstagu da Rigsdagsbranden de Reichstagbrand de Der Reichstagsbrand el Εμπρησμός του Ράιχσταγκ es incendio del Reichstag fa آتش‌سوزی رایشستاگ fi Saksan valtiopäivätalon tuhopoltto fi Valtiopäivätalon tuhopoltto fr incendie du Reichstag he שריפת הרייכסטאג hu A Reichstag felgyújtása id Kebakaran Reichstag ja ドイツ国会議事堂放火事件 ja ベルリン国会議事堂放火事件 ja 国会議事堂放火事件
🔖 Identifiers · 26
GND ID
4049177-8
BabelNet ID
01344805n
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12005132j
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
reichstagsbrand
De Agostini ID
Reichstag,+incèndio+del-
Described at URL
www.dhm.de
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
4HkFi4
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
125203
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
event/Reichstag-fire
Encyclopædia Universalis ID
incendie-du-reichstag
Freebase ID
/m/01dfm1
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Riksdagsbrannen_i_Berlin
Show all 26 identifiers +14
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2137901
Harper's tag
reichstag-fire
Lex ID
Rigsdagsbranden
Museum-digital tag ID
123920
NE.se ID
riksdagshusbranden
NL CR AUT ID
ph317169
National Library of Poland MMS ID
9810578142705606
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID
XX4807147
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
3966800
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803100411794
Quora topic ID
Reichstag-Fire
SVKKL authority ID
0279798-pozar-risskeho-snemu-1933-Berlin-Nemecko
WikiKids ID
Rijksdagbrand
World History Encyclopedia ID
Reichstag_Fire

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Country 1
Weimar Republic
Damaged 1
Reichstag
Instance of 1
arson
Located in/on physical feature 1
Reichstag
Location 1
Reichstag
Named after 1
Reichstag Fire Decree
Participant 1
Marinus van der Lubbe
Target 1
Reichstag
← Has cause 1
Reichstag Fire Decree
← Main subject 1
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Summary

Reichstag fire is an arson[1].

Body

Outcome and Impact

Things named for Reichstag fire include Reichstag Fire Decree[12], an ordinance[13].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include Reichstag Fire Decree[12], an ordinance[13].

Related Entities

Marinus van der Lubbe

References

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  1. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 21d ago · Jeuwre · 2026-10-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pronunciation audio → De-Reichstagsbrand2.ogg
    "Created claim: Pronunciation audio: De-Reichstagsbrand2.ogg"
  2. 9w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID → XX4807147
    "Created claim: National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID: XX4807147"
  3. 15w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → reichstag-fire
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: reichstag-fire, Matched to reichstag fire (#289962982) in Harper's…"
  4. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 4HkFi4
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  5. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0279798-pozar-risskeho-snemu-1933-Berlin-Nemecko
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0279798-pozar-risskeho-snemu-1933-Berlin-Nemecko, batch #259493"
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