Erich Ollenhauer House

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Erich Ollenhauer House (2007)

The Erich-Ollenhauer-Haus in Bonn's parliamentary and government district was the SPD's federal party headquarters from 1975 to 1999 . The building is on the west side of Friedrich-Ebert- Allee ( Bundesstraße 9 ) at the corner of Ollenhauerstraße in the Gronau district . It was named after the second SPD post-war chairman , Erich Ollenhauer .

history

Laying of the foundation stone on June 7, 1974

In May 1951, the SPD had moved into a barrack-like building on a site in Bonn that comprised 86 rooms and also housed the editorial office of the New Forward . The building was also referred to as a barrack in the media . In 1952 an extension was built. With the establishment of a temporary arrangement, the party wanted to demonstrate its will to move the seat of government to Berlin as quickly as possible and was therefore only a tenant of the property in question. In 1974 the building was dismantled in order to rebuild parts of it in Travemünde as a rest home for the workers' welfare organization.

The new building of the SPD party headquarters based on a design by the architecture firm Novotny Mähner Assoziierte was inaugurated on October 3, 1975 by the then SPD chairman Willy Brandt . It was created with the stipulation that the SPD expressed an “objective, non-representational attitude”. The name barrack was retained as a common name for the SPD headquarters. At the end of July 1999 the party headquarters moved with the relocation of the seat of parliament and government to the Willy Brandt House in Berlin, which had been inaugurated three years earlier . The SPD then rented its Bonn building to Deutsche Telekom , whose subsidiary DeTeImmobilien moved in there in spring 2001 with 170 employees and moved out again at the end of 2005. On August 3, 2006, Vapiano AG opened a restaurant in part of the building. The relocation of the company's headquarters (later moved out again) and the opening of a training center were to follow.

Since April 30, 2007, the infas Institute for Applied Social Science GmbH has set up its telephone studio in the two middle wings. In October 2007 the company netzwerk.net GmbH moved into its new business premises in this historic building. The Erich-Ollenhauer-Haus is a stop on the path of democracy history .

reception

“The“ barracks ”became a more solid institution, which with its demonstratively shown concrete supports seems to symbolize the stability of standing. (...) It seems as if a body with its skeleton is literally turned inside out, and one wonders whether the architects are calling for openness or other virtues with this symbolism that may adorn the SPD, but which may be with the architectural pleading found an all too abstract expression. (...) In favor of the SPD, it must be said that their house has not become a mere container, nor is it a gunboat on the high seas. Certainly a degree of sophistication has been achieved that at least stimulates looking. "

- Heinrich Klotz (1978)

"Of the party and foundation buildings represented in Bonn, the Erich-Ollenhauer-Haus of the SPD stands out, which in its architectural quality and originality stands in pleasant contrast to the everyday creations of modern office buildings."

- Frank-Lothar Kroll (1989)

literature

  • Ingeborg flag : Architecture in Bonn after 1945: Buildings in the federal capital and its surroundings . Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7928-0479-4 , p. 57.
  • Bredenbeck , Moneke, Neubacher (Ed.): Building for the Federal Capital (= Edition Critical Edition , Volume 2). Weidle Verlag, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-938803-41-7 , pp. 115-119. [not yet evaluated for this article]

Web links

Commons : Erich-Ollenhauer-Haus  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Bonn, City Archives (ed.); Helmut Vogt : "The Minister lives in a company car on platform 4". The beginnings of the federal government in Bonn 1949/50 , Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-922832-21-0 , p. 232.
  2. ↑ Magenta flags over the red barracks , General-Anzeiger , December 20, 2000
  3. ↑ Telekom subsidiary rents a barracks in the SPD , Die Welt , January 11, 2001
  4. ↑ After the comrades come the pizza bakers , General-Anzeiger , April 26, 2006
  5. ^ Heinrich Klotz: Iconology of a Capital - Bonn State Architecture . In: Ders .: Designing a new environment. Critical essays on contemporary architecture . CJ Bucher, Lucerne and Frankfurt / M. 1978, ISBN 978-3-7658-0280-5 , pp. 45-55; Martin Warnke (Hrsg.): Political architecture in Europe from the Middle Ages to today: Representation and community . DuMont, Cologne 1984, ISBN 978-3-7701-1532-7 , pp. 399-416 (here: pp. 404-406).
  6. ^ Frank-Lothar Kroll: Federal capital Bonn. A Danaer present? In: Federal Ministry for Building, Regional Planning and Urban Development (Ed.): Forty Years Federal Capital Bonn 1949–1989 . CF Müller, Karlsruhe 1989, ISBN 3-7880-9780-9 , pp. 92-115 (here: p. 111).


Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 36.5 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 36 ″  E