Bunker Strausberg (Deutsche Post)

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The bunker Strausberg of the Deutsche Post , also known as "Object 17/201 - Headquarters of the Central Staff of the DP in Strausberg", was a hub of the telecommunications network of the GDR and was part of the establishment of the GSN (basic network of the state intelligence of the GDR) and the Special network 1 of great importance.

Location

It was erected in the service facility of the GDR Deutsche Post in Strausberg on Garzauer Strasse. It was projected at the end of the 1970s and its construction lasted until the first half of the 1980s. Project planning, commissioning and use took place as part of Deutsche Post's investment plans.

The bunker has two floors with a total usable area of ​​around 8500 m². Its base is approx. 65 × 65 m. The establishment took place in the context of measures to expand the old telecommunications network of the GDR from the post-war period to the basic network of the state telecommunications system of the GDR as well as the establishment of the "integrated staff network of the party and state leadership of the GDR and the armed organs", in common parlance as "special network 1 ”.

It should not be confused with the Strausberg bunker of the Ministry of National Defense .

Use at that time

The bunker was primarily a news bunker, and in the event of a voltage also a command bunker. When news of the bunker, he secured as a message center 2 , or as a main switch 2 of the special network 1, or as switching and control center (SBZ) 2 of the special network 1, the supply of all command levels and departments in the center of the military leadership of the NPA, including the Operational management center was Telecommunication technology is connected to the main intelligence center of the MfNV , the Harnekop bunker as the main control point of the MfNV, the Garzau bunker as the NVA's operational data center and other facilities.

The functions of the bunker were determined by the different tasks that it had to perform at the same time. In the area of ​​the post and telecommunications office Strausberg of the GDR Deutsche Post, he secured the provision of all telecommunications connections to the long-distance and local network level as transmission point 1 of the Deutsche Post.

It was prepared as a command bunker:

After the fall of the Wall, the site was used by Deutsche Telekom . There is also evidence that the bunker was used by the Bundeswehr until 1995, after which the bunker was closed.

Todays use

Since 2018, the non-profit association Orte der Geschichte eV has been trying to rededicate the bunker. The aim is to use it as an extracurricular learning and educational facility and a meeting place for creative minds as well as for historically interested people. Historical processes are to be taken up and presented to an audience in the form of various art, cultural and exhibition projects. Among other things, the plan is to use the several hundred meter long access tunnel to the building as a gallery, as well as the further gradual opening of the entire building for the public. On August 31, 2019, since the building was closed over 25 years ago, visitors were able to visit the bunker for the first time.

photos

  • Former DP office in Strausberg, Garzauer Strasse

  • Administration building of the DP, Garzauer Strasse

  • Basement in the DP administration building

  • Access to the approx. 200 m long bunker tunnel

literature

  • Paul Bergner: Nuclear Bunker - Cold War - Dolphin program. On the trail of the bunkers built for the Cold War . Heinrich-Jung-Verlagsgesellschaft, Zella-Mehlis et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-930588-78-7 .
  • Hans Werner Deim, Hans-Georg Kampe, Joachim Kampe, Wolfgang Schubert: The military security of the GDR in the Cold War. Contents, structures, bunkered management positions, facilities. Meißler, Hönow 2008, ISBN 978-3-932566-80-6 .
  • Joachim Kampe: Wostok - the news center in the center of the military power of the GDR. CD in Portable Document Format (PDF). Project and publishing house Meißler, Hönow 2004, ISBN 3-932566-60-2 .
  • Joachim Kampe: Cold War bunkers . Video documentation.

Web links

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '54.6 "  N , 13 ° 51' 17.4"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Paul Bergner: Atomic Bunker - Cold War - Dolphin program. On the trail of the bunkers for the Cold War - p. 533
  2. ^ Art underground: With the ice breeze of the Cold War. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kulturbunker - Orte der Geschichte eV Accessed on September 17, 2019 .