Barracks area at Treptower Park

Barracks area at Treptower Park
	The barracks area at Treptower Park
country	Germany
today	Federal Criminal Police Office
local community	Berlin
Coordinates :	52 ° 29 ' N , 13 ° 27' E Coordinates: 52 ° 29 '28 " N , 13 ° 27' 17" E
Opened	1908
owner	Federation
Old barracks names
Formerly stationed units
Telegraph battalion No. 1 ; border troops of the GDR; Jägerbataillon 581	; ;
Location of the barracks area Am Treptower Park in Berlin

The barracks area Am Treptower Park in Berlin-Alt-Treptow was built in 1908 between Am Treptower Park , Elsenstraße , Bouchéstraße and the railway line for the telegraph battalion No. 1 of the Prussian army .

use

German Empire

In addition to the parade ground for the cavalry telegraph school , accommodation for the troops was also built. The telegraph troops used the parade ground until 1918. There were also horse stables of the imperial court and a radio operator's department there.

After the First World War , the barracks grounds were formally subordinated to the Berlin Police President . After the National Socialists came to power , the Wehrmacht's " Heereswaffenmeisterschule " was housed on the site . Weapons and ammunition for anti-tank defense were tested on the premises - partly in underground shooting ranges .

GDR

After the Second World War , the Red Army occupied the barracks area. The Soviet monument building administration also moved there by 1951. The construction of the Soviet memorial in Treptower Park was directed from there. Police forces were also again stationed on the premises; after 1949 the People's Police . In December 1950, the political officers' school of the People's Police from Torgau to Treptow also came to the barracks, which were later called Ernst Schneller barracks . In 1962 the border troops of the GDR moved into the barracks area.

After reunification

In 1990 the area was taken over by the German Armed Forces and initially used by the Berlin headquarters. The Bundeswehr Jäger Battalion 581 was stationed there until the summer of 1993, before it was relocated to the former Montgomery barracks (today: Blücher barracks) in Berlin-Kladow, where it was renamed Jägerbataillon 1 Berlin . Here in 1992 the first solemn pledge was carried out by army recruits in Berlin. Asylum seekers were then temporarily housed.

From 1996 to 1999 the buildings were refurbished in accordance with listed buildings and have been used by the Federal Criminal Police Office ever since . Since December 2004, the joint anti-terrorism center of the BKA and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has also been located on the site .