On September 27, 1897, the Friesen Gymnastic Society honored his memory by erecting a monument in the form of a mound of fieldstones and a viewing platform on the top. On the monument there is a plaque with the following inscription: Zum Andenken an / Friedrich Friesen / gewidmet vom / Turneverein Friesen / Stettin / 27.9.97. After 1945, the monument was destroyed by rolling stones down the slope. The plaque with the inscription has been lost. In 2021, history enthusiasts rebuilt the monument to the sports promoter. The pyramid of boulders is 2.5 meters high. Right next to it there is a resting place with benches and a place for a bonfire.
He was born on September 25, 1784 in Magdeburg. He studied geodesy at the Academy of Architecture in Berlin, then became interested in education and philosophy. In the years 1806-1811 he worked on the great atlas of Mexico together with Alexander von Humboldt. From 1810 he was an instructor at the Plamann Institute, teaching according to Pestalozzi's principles. In the years 1810-1812, together with Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, he created the foundations of German gymnastics. Friesen temporarily headed a gymnastics club in Berlin, developed many new gymnastic exercises and founded one of the first German swimming pools at Berlin's Unterbaumbrücke. In 1812, he actively prepared an uprising against Napoleon. In 1813, as an adjutant to Major Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow, he helped organize the volunteer corps. After the Battle of Kitzen, he escaped with the poet Theodor Körner, who died in his arms near Rosenow. He was captured by the French after a defeat after a clash with Napoleon's troops. The French executed him on March 16, 1814 in Lalobbe in the Ardennes. In 1843, he was solemnly buried at the military cemetery in Berlin
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