On 16 June 2023, the President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Prof. Dr. Stephan Harbarth, attended a ceremony in the German Bundestag commemorating the 70th anniversary of the uprising in the former German Democratic Republic. On 17 June 2023, he took part in wreath-laying ceremonies at the central memorial site in the Seestraße cemetery in Berlin and at the Postplatz in Görlitz.