Donald Trump could immortalize Albert Einstein in “Heldengarten”

The physicist and Nobel laureate Albert Einstein from Germany could be immortalized in a “garden of American heroes” that US President Donald Trump commissioned. This emerges from a report by the “Washington Post”, which Trump’s spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt shared on Tuesday in online service X.

After that, Einstein is on a list of almost 250 personalities whose statues could be set up in the garden. The physicist fled the United States to the United States in the fall of 1933 before the National Socialists via Belgium and London. In April 1955, the explorer of relativity theory died in the university city of Princeton.

In addition to Einstein, the list published by the “Washington Post” also includes the first US President George Washington, the singer Elvis Presley and the boxer Muhammad Ali. The explorer Christopher Columbus should therefore also be recognized with a statue. However, the leaf emphasizes that the line -up is not finally.

On the national holiday on July 4, Trump had put a tax and expenditure law into force with his signature, which provides for $ 40 million (around 34 million euros) to set up the memorial. According to the report, there has been no place for this.

According to the US Foundation for the Humanities (NEH), the hero garden is to open in July 2026-just in time for the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence. “All statues must be life-size and made of marble, granite, bronze, copper or brass,” says the Neh website.