Reich Chancellery Berchtesgaden Office

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Small Reich Chancellery
Exterior view from the northeast

Exterior view from the northeast

Data
place Bischofswiesen , Urbanweg 26, 28
Construction year 1936-1937
height 620 m
Floor space 1255 m²
Coordinates 47 ° 37 '52.4 "  N , 12 ° 58' 29.5"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '52.4 "  N , 12 ° 58' 29.5"  E

The Reich Chancellery Dienststelle Berchtesgaden (also known as the Small Reich Chancellery ) is a listed building complex in Bischofswiesen , near the entrance to Berchtesgaden, built between 1936 and 1937 according to plans by Alois Degano as a branch of the Reich Chancellery . It served as the second seat of government of the National Socialist German Reich during Adolf Hitler's presence in the Obersalzberg restricted area .

Planning and construction

The architect Alois Degano was commissioned with the planning of the building , construction began in mid-September 1936. The high groundwater level made it difficult to erect the foundations, which is why a pile foundation on 620 concrete piles was installed. Degano had decided on a main building with a side wing, and a garage with staff apartments was also built to the northeast. The topping-out ceremony took place on January 18, 1937, the building above ground was completed in July 1937. Between 1943 and 1945 the 500 m long air raid shelter was built.

description

location

The buildings are located on Urbanweg in the Bischofswiesen district of Stanggaß at an altitude of around 620  m . The bunker facilities, which are directly connected to the buildings of the Reich Chancellery, have an entrance southwest of the facility directly on the Freilassing – Berchtesgaden railway line .

Building description

The Reich Chancellery is an assembly with two offset two-storey flat - gable roof buildings with parallel gables . The buildings are designed with gable arbors , stand cores , profiled purlin heads and arched entrances based on regional designs. A low transverse structure with a gable roof serves as a connection.

The associated vehicle building is a two-story solid construction with a flat gable roof.

Service operation

Parallel to his stays at the Berghof on Obersalzberg , Adolf Hitler used the workrooms of the Small Reich Chancellery to write a total of around 125 laws and ordinances. Political guests were also received in this building. If required, the high command of the Wehrmacht was housed in buildings that were bought later .

From 1937 onwards, the head of the Reich Chancellery, Hans Heinrich Lammers , the department head of "Department A" Willy Meerwald and other officials did their official business in the Berchtesgaden office in the summer months. In correspondence and in public use of language, it was not the Reich Chancellery in Berchtesgaden that was spoken of , but the office of the Reich Chancellery in Berchtesgaden . This was to avoid the impression that the Reich Chancellery was completely relocated to Berchtesgaden.

Post-war use

In May 1945 the Reich Chancellery Berchtesgaden was occupied by the US Army. US General Omar Bradley was chauffeured to the site in one of the vehicles from Hitler's fleet to hold a roll call for US soldiers and to award awards. Used by the US Army from 1945 to 1995, the Federal Republic - legally identical with the German Reich - was also able to dispose of the property from 1996 onwards. She sold these to a group of private investors.

In 2004, the former fell Little Reich Chancellery for temporary use a rented apartment therein by the family therapist Bert Hellinger again in the spotlight of media publicity, and he by leading systemic therapists as Arist Schlippe because of the meaning of family constellations related submissions to Adolf Hitler and the " Jewish people ”was heavily criticized. Later, however, Arist von Schlippe emphasized that he understood Hellinger neither as a “Nazi” nor as a “fascist”, “his thinking” and “as a pioneer of a 'brown' worldview”.

Most of the interior of the Small Reich Chancellery is still in its original form. The owner attaches great importance to maintaining this condition.

See also

literature

  • Gunther Exner: Hitler's Second Reich Chancellery. An architectural-historical documentation of the "Reich Chancellery, Berchtesgaden Office". Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1999. ISBN 978-3-8046-8846-9 .
  • Hitler's Reich Chancellery in Berchtesgaden Zeitreisen Verlag, Bochum 2005. ISBN 978-3-941538-24-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architectural monuments Bischofswiesen : D-1-72-117-90 , list of April 17, 2020, online as a PDF file at geodaten.bayern.de , accessed on May 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ Evening and night edition. Deutsches Nachrichtenbüro GmbH 4th year 1937 from January 18, 1937: The Führer at the topping-out ceremony in Berchtesgaden
  3. ↑ Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , April 20, 1938, Volume 58, Issue 10, p. 407.
  4. ↑ obersalzberg.de ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Documentation Obersalzberg on Hitler's regulations @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.obersalzberg.de
  5. ↑ obersalzberg.de ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Documentation Obersalzberg on Himmler's note about his meeting with Hitler on June 19, 1943 on Obersalzberg about "gang fight and security situation" @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.obersalzberg.de
  6. ^ Völkischer Beobachter , January 19, 1937 for the topping-out ceremony (R 43 II / 1036, p. 103). Views of the building in: The Buildings of Movement , book series of the Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, ed. from the Prussian Ministry of Finance, Berlin 1942
  7. ^ Letter from Lammers to Goebbels dated November 29, 1937 (R 43 II / 1036, Bl. 111 ff.). Documents on the organization of the connection between Berlin and Berchtesgaden in: R 43 II / 586, Bl. 11 ff.
  8. ^ "Guide relief in iron" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1996 ( online ).
  9. ↑ Jörg Schallenberg: The Psycho Headquarters in the TAZ from June 29, 2004, online at taz.de , accessed on May 12, 2017.
  10. ↑ Jörg Schallenberg: The Psycho Headquarters in the TAZ from June 29, 2004, online at taz.de
  11. ↑ Siegfried Rosner, Andreas Winheller: mediation and negotiation. Munich and Mering 2012, p. 389, footnote 1027.
  12. ↑ Arist von Schlippe : Open letter from Arist von Schlippe to Bert Hellinger . (PDF; 79 kB), p. 1 (undated).
  13. ↑ Arist von Schlippe: ... and that is why you are a moose. An open letter and its consequences (PDF; 168 kB) short version, 2004, p. 1.
  14. ↑ Bad Buildings III . Documentation in: ZDFmediathek . Germany 2016. From minute 14:32. Retrieved January 27, 2017; available until October 31, 2017.