House of the German Metal Workers' Association

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IG Metall House (2008)

The house of the German Metal Workers' Association (also: IG-Metall-Haus ) is located in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg at Alte Jakobstrasse 149 and is the administrative office of the IG Metall Berlin-Brandenburg-Saxony trade union .

history

Building of Erich Mendelsohn's metalworkers' association (1930)

The foundation stone for today's IG-Metall-Haus was laid on July 21, 1929. The architects were Erich Mendelsohn and R. W. Reichel, whereby the building was primarily shaped by Mendelsohn. The building was completed a year later in August 1930 despite the global economic crisis that was emerging at the time and a strike by construction workers.

The new building had become necessary because the German Metalworkers Association (DMV), the forerunner of today's IG Metall, wanted to relocate its headquarters from Stuttgart to Berlin. In 1930 the DMV union building was inaugurated on the property between Lindenstrasse and Alte Jakobstrasse. With that the DMV moved to Berlin.

With National Socialism , the building was confiscated and the German Labor Front (DAF) took over the DMV building. 1945. At the end of World War II , it burned out.

In 1952 the house was repaired, but due to its decentralized location in Kreuzberg, it remained largely unnoticed until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. After the German reunification , the house was renovated in 1995 in accordance with a listed building. Today it is a listed building .

investment

The shape of the plot required a triangular floor plan for the building. The head building at the top of the building towers above the two elongated side wings, which are built in the New Objectivity style. The head building is concave and has expressive elements. A two-storey connecting building is located between the two office wings. A special characteristic of the building are the numerous brass elements inside the building that refer to the client .

  • Spiral staircase

  • Spiral staircase

  • Brass doors

  • facade

literature

  • Wolfgang Blumenthal, Elke Keller, Karlheinz Cuba: With the groschen of the members. Union houses in Berlin 1900 to 1933 . 2nd edition, Weist, Berlin 2013 (Writings of the Johannes Sassenbach Society; 2), ISBN 3-89626-398-6 , pp. 65–70.

Web links

Commons : House of the German Metalworkers' Association  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The IG Metall house tells its story (PDF; 25 kB)
  2. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List

Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 57.7 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 45.7"  E