General Staff Building

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General Staff Building on Koenigsplatz in Berlin, 1900

The General Staff building in the Tiergarten district of Berlin was the seat of the Great General Staff during the German Empire . The building at Königsplatz 6 (today: Platz der Republik ) was badly damaged in World War II and later demolished. The area is now partially built over by the Federal Chancellery .

location

The building was in the Alsenviertel between Moltkestrasse (since 1998: Willy-Brandt-Strasse) and Herwarthstrasse.

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View from the direction of Lehrter Bahnhof over the Moltke Bridge to the General Staff building (right). In the background, still on the king place standing Victory Column and the dome of the Reichstag building , 1900's.

history

The General Staff building was built between 1867 and 1871 in neo-renaissance style based on a design by August Ferdinand Fleischinger and after the Franco-Prussian War the General Staff moved into it. From 1873 to 1882, the building was expanded on the northern site between Herwarthstrasse and Moltkestrasse. The building was also the headquarters of the Chief of the General Staff.

At the beginning of the First World War , from August 2 to 16, 1914, the General Staff still retained its seat there. Later he always changed his main headquarters after the war . After the end of the war and the dissolution of the Great General Staff, which was enforced in the Versailles Peace Treaty , the General Staff building was used by authorities such as the Prussian Ministry of the Interior (from 1934: Reich and Prussian Ministry of the Interior ).

Others

In Stine (Fontane) Waldemar, who lives not far from the General Staff building, says:

“You can't be in better hands than right there. Anyone who knows how to take care of great security will also take care of small ones. "

- Theodor Fontane as Woldemar in Stine , 15th chapter

literature

  • Edgard Haider: Lost splendor. Stories of destroyed buildings. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-8067-2949-2 , p. 62 ff.
  • Hans-Werner Klünner (Ed.): Berlin places (historical photographs by Max Missmann ). Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung Beuermann GmbH, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87584-610-9 .

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Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '16.4 "  N , 13 ° 22' 9.2"  E