Dietmar Arnold

Dietmar Arnold
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Dietmar Arnold (born December 19, 1964 in Berlin ) is a German author. He published popular scientific literature on the history of Berlin. His main focus is on the historical documentation of underground facilities.

Life

Dietmar Arnold attended the Gustav Dreyer School and then the Georg Herwegh High School . He then began studying urban and regional planning at the Technical University of Berlin . The thesis dealt with the Beelitz sanatoriums .

In 1991 Arnold began to research the underground facilities in Berlin and received orders from the Berlin Senate Building Department to draw up reports . Together with his fellow student Andreas Körner he founded the planning office Arnold & Körner GbR , which existed until 2005. They measured and documented structures. Initially, the company even applied for plans for the redesign of Potsdamer Platz . “We were highly traded and were the first to come up with a concrete urban design. We had a good chance of being involved in the planning assignment for the square, ”said Arnold. But when it turned out that the two young planners were still students, the dream of a major contract fell through.

On May 22, 1997, Dietmar Arnold and six other people founded the Berliner Unterwelten association , which he has led as first chairman ever since. The then co-owner of the planning office, Andreas Körner, is the director of finance for the Berlin Underworld Association. On November 13th, 2006 Dietmar and his brother Ingmar Arnold were awarded the Silver Hemisphere , the German Prize for Monument Protection 2006, on behalf of the entire Berliner Unterwelten eV in Weimar . This award is the highest award in this field in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Arnold received the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin in October 2018 for his work and his commitment to the historical legacy of Berlin .

Arnold has been a member of the SPD since 1989 . In 2014 he wanted to apply within the party to succeed Klaus Wowereit as Governing Mayor of Berlin , but did not find a sufficient number of supporters to be able to run.

Publications (selection)

• with Ingmar Arnold: Dark Worlds. Bunkers, tunnels and vaults under Berlin. Ch. Links, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-86153-129-1 .
• with Ingmar Arnold: freedom of the lock. At the gates of the city palace. Be.bra-verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-930863-33-2 .
• Potsdamer Platz from below. A journey through time through dark worlds. Ch. Links, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-86153-241-7 .
• with Reiner Janick: sirens and packed suitcases. Everyday bunker life in Berlin. Ch. Links, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86153-308-1 .
• New Reich Chancellery and “Führerbunker”. Legends and Reality. Ch. Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-353-7 .
• with Sven Felix Kellerhoff : The escape tunnels of Berlin. Propylaea, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-549-07341-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietmar Arnold in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietmar Arnold / Andreas Körner: Berlin-Brandenburg - Development concepts for the grounds of the Beelitz Heilstätten - inventory, preservation of monuments, revitalization (diploma thesis)
2. ^ Sirens and packed suitcases , p. 215
3. ↑ Bettina Klotz: Arnold is chairman of the board of the "Berliner Unterwelten e.V." ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2014 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. In: TU intern 10/2011.  
4. ↑ List of the winners of the German National Committee for Monument Protection:
5. ↑ Awarded the Berlin State Order. In: Berlin.de. Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin, September 27, 2018, accessed on September 28, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Dietmar Arnold - "I'm not running for fun" . In: Berliner Morgenpost , September 5, 2014.
7. ↑ SPD base has three candidates for election / head of the Berlin Underworlds Dietmar Arnold fails with his possible candidacy due to lack of support . In: Neues Deutschland , September 15, 2015.