House of the Aviators

The House of fliers in Berlin was in 1935 a device under the auspices of Hermann Goering , which he used related associations as a foyer and a representative meeting for themselves and him. The building complex between Leipziger Platz and Prinz-Albrecht-Straße thus practically represented a small “ Reich Chancellery ” for the second man in the Nazi state .

modification

Hermann Göring had previously set up a foundation in order to be able to keep the building for his office. Since the buildings of the former Prussian mansion and the previous Prussian House of Representatives belonged to the neighboring Reich Aviation Ministry , which was tailored to Göring , he had them converted for the “Aero Club of Germany” and the ministry's own “German Aviation Academy”. However, these conversions only affected the office space, the far more serious conversion was that of the representative location of the ministry. For this purpose, the historic plenary hall was completely gutted and converted into Göring's personal event hall in the style of Nazi architecture .

The house as part of the terror center

Hermann Göring , in his function as acting Prussian Minister of the Interior, had previously housed the Secret State Police Office (Gestapo) in the buildings adjacent to the house , and now the “Secret Prussian State Police” followed. From 1939 the existing facilities were combined to form the Reich Security Main Office . Due to the personal union of many offices and the "unity of party and state" striven for by the Nazi ideology, the House of Fliers now also became the venue for the Reich Security Main Office and made office space available to it. On April 23 and 24, 1941, the “Working Conference of the Higher Regional Court Presidents and Public Prosecutors” took place here, at which the highest-ranking lawyers were informed about the secret T4 campaign .

That of SD boss Reinhard Heydrich shaped terror apparatus but not used the building, as were his basement at the request of Goering - who saw threatened his receptions - not used for torture and interrogation, as the other buildings. Because of this, the building was later classified as "historically less polluted" in the GDR's reconstruction plans and was not demolished.

Post-war period and GDR

The building was damaged in the Second World War , but it was still usable, which is why the GDR set up its “House of Ministries II” here (the “ House of Ministries I ” was housed in the former Reich Aviation Ministry , which had also survived the war well).

Since 1993, the Berlin House of Representatives has been using the former Prussian House of Representatives, now known as the “ Prussian Landtag ”, while the former mansion now serves as the home of the Federal Council .

Individual evidence

↑ Helmut Kramer : “Hold a court day over yourself” - Fritz Bauer's procedure for the participation of the judiciary in institutional murder. In: Hanno Loewy and Bettina Winter: Nazi euthanasia in court: Fritz Bauer and the limits of legal coping. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1996, pp. 81–131, here: pp. 84–86, 117.

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[1] Helmut Kramer : “Hold a court day over yourself” - Fritz Bauer's procedure for the participation of the judiciary in institutional murder. In: Hanno Loewy and Bettina Winter: Nazi euthanasia in court: Fritz Bauer and the limits of legal coping. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1996, pp. 81–131, here: pp. 84–86, 117.