Führerbau

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The building today
The interior of the building today

The former Führerbau was built from 1933 to 1937 according to plans by the architect Paul Ludwig Troost at Arcisstrasse 12 in Munich for Führer and Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler . The first plans for the Führerbau date from 1931. It was completed three years after Troost's death by Leonhard Gall .

description

During the Nazi era , the Führerbau served as a representative building. The building closed off Königsplatz together with the administration building of the NSDAP in terms of urban planning towards the east. The Munich Agreement was signed here in 1938 .

In the shelter of the leader construction, offshore from 1943 about 650 images predominantly looted art and the " Führer Museum determined" in Linz. Shortly before the invasion of the 7th US Army - on the night of April 29-30, 1945 - the cellar was looted; over 600 paintings disappeared, including many works from the Dutch Golden Age .

From 1945 the former Führerbau was used by the US military government together with the administrative building as a Central Collecting Point for the looted art stolen by the Nazis throughout Europe during the Second World War , including the Göring Art Collection or the seized works from the Special order Linz . Identified artworks were from there to the countries of origin restituted .

In the foreground you can see the former Führerbau

Today the house houses the Munich University of Music and Theater . In 1954 the congress hall was converted into a concert hall. The building is in a poor structural condition and needs a general renovation.

literature

  • Alexander Krause: Arcisstrasse 12. Palais Pringsheim - Führerbau - Amerika-Haus - University of Music and Theater. 3rd improved edition. Allitera-Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-86520-094-5 ( Edition Monacensia ).
  • Ulrike Grammbitter, Iris Lauterbach: The former party center of the NSDAP in Munich. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-02153-2 ( DKV edition ).

Web links

Commons : Führerbau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgit Schwarz: Geniewahn: Hitler und die Kunst, Vienna 2009, p. 179ff.
  2. ↑ Kia Vahland : The Sermon on the Mount from Cell 6. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 11, 2014.
  3. ↑ Monika Maier-Albang: The picture of the old lady. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 7, 2009.
  4. ↑ http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/_Anlagen/2014/06/2014-06-12-bkm-fragesrekord.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1
  5. ↑ Jakob Wetzel: Water in the "Führerbau". Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 21, 2015, accessed on April 21, 2015 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 46 ″  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 4 ″  E