BND property in Pullach

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Main gate to the BND site in Pullach

The BND property in Pullach (also former BND headquarters or Camp Nikolaus ) south of Munich was the headquarters of the German foreign intelligence service from the establishment of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) on April 1, 1956 until it was officially relocated to Berlin on February 8, 2019 . “ Pullach ” was sometimes used as a synonym for the Federal Intelligence Service.

description

The extensive, 68 hectare property in Pullach is surrounded by a high wall and is divided by Heilmannstrasse into an old western part and a new eastern part. A road tunnel and a pedestrian tunnel under Heilmannstrasse connect the two areas. The area is characterized by the contrast between idyllic nature and sober functional buildings.

The President of the BND had his office in Martin Bormann's former bedroom in the presidential villa , which also had a bunker. The villa was also called “ Doktorhaus” because the first President Reinhard Gehlen used the service name “Dr. Schneider ”led. In addition, the president had a bungalow with overnight accommodation on the new part of the site.

The early BND employees lived isolated on the site. There were schools, a kindergarten , shops , a hairdresser and a tailor. As recently as 2014, the site had a car wash , a kennel for watch dogs, a martial arts practice room, two tennis courts with a clubhouse, a thermal power station, a cinema, chemical laboratories, a former gas station, a medical area, a library and a shooting range (in the former bunker “Hagen "). Parts of the buildings erected in the 1970s had air raid shelters . The old situation center was in house 110 on the new part of the site.

prehistory

Part of the complex (west of Heilmannstrasse) was built between 1936 and 1938 as the “ Reichssiedlung Rudolf Hess ” for the employees of the NSDAP .

Already on December 6, 1947, the BND forerunner Organization Gehlen , coming from Oberursel ( Camp King ), moved into the property in Pullach on Heilmannstrasse and made it its headquarters. Because of this date, it was also called "Camp Nikolaus" or "Object Nikolaus".

Opening in 1996

It was only since the opening of the service in 1996 under President Hansjörg Geiger that there was a board at the driveway with the label “Federal Intelligence Service”. Before that there was an inscription “Accommodation for the authorities”. Another code name for the property was "Federal Property Administration, Special Assets Department, Munich Branch".

Relocation of the headquarters to Berlin

In 2002, the Bundestag decided to move the BND completely from Pullach to Berlin. The federal government , however, was the beginning of 2006 the pressure of the CSU , particularly its chairman Edmund Stoiber , after and hired a BND Relocation Committee (under head of the chancellery Thomas de Maiziere ) to examine the relocation new. The decision to keep the Pullach location followed. After the property no longer serves as the headquarters, it is to be reduced significantly and, among other things, the former imperial settlement area west of Heilmannstrasse is to be completely cleared. Most of the abandoned buildings that are not listed are to be demolished.

Todays use

Building of the BND data center

The Federal Intelligence Service has a permanent branch in Pullach. There he runs the “Center for Technical Reconnaissance”. The 1,020 posts remaining in Pullach mainly belong to the Technical Reconnaissance Department (TA).

literature

Web links

Commons : Federal Intelligence Service in Pullach im Isartal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martin Schlüter: The spies sleep at night - last views of the BND in Pullach . with texts by Klaus Honnef and Niklas Maak. Sieveking Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-944874-03-6 , pp. 23 .
  2. ↑ Martin Schlüter: The spies sleep at night - last views of the BND in Pullach . with texts by Klaus Honnef and Niklas Maak. Sieveking Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-944874-03-6 , pp. 10 .
  3. ↑ Susanne Meinl, Bodo Hechelhammer: Secret object Pullach - From the NS model settlement to the headquarters of the BND . Ch.links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-792-2 , p. 181 ff .
  4. ↑ a b Martin Schlüter: The spies sleep at night - last views of the BND in Pullach . with texts by Klaus Honnef and Niklas Maak. Sieveking Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-944874-03-6 (blurb).
  5. ↑ Susanne Meinl, Bodo Hechelhammer: Secret object Pullach - From the NS model settlement to the headquarters of the BND . Ch.links, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-792-2 , p. 136 (Illustration of an official site plan from 1995 with the designation: "Plan des Objkekt NIKOLAUS").
  6. ↑ Marcel Fürstenau: From Pullach to Berlin - The long way of the BND. In: dw.com. February 8, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Marc Neller, Florian Flade: Reportage secret services - BND agents break their silence. In: https://www.welt.de/ . Die Welt, April 6, 2015, accessed November 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Hans Leyendecker: Federal Intelligence Service - Like from a bad agent film. In: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/ . Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 3, 2017, accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Martin Schlüter: The spies sleep at night - last views of the BND in Pullach . with texts by Klaus Honnef and Niklas Maak. Sieveking Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-944874-03-6 , pp. 6 .
  10. ↑ a b New BND headquarters: This is how the secret move went. In: https://www.morgenpost.de/ . Berliner Morgenpost, November 29, 2018, accessed on November 7, 2019 .
  11. ^ BND - locations. In: https://www.bnd.bund.de/ . BND, accessed November 7, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 49 ″  N , 11 ° 31 ′ 44 ″  E