Kurt Schumacher House (Hamburg)

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View from Kurt-Schumacher-Allee

The Kurt-Schumacher-Haus in the Hamburg district of St. Georg is a listed office building and the seat of the SPD regional organization Hamburg . It was built in 1956/57 and is named after Kurt Schumacher , the first party chairman of the post-war period . The construction was decided in 1954 by a state party conference, three years later, in addition to the SPD state association, the regional offices of IG Metall moved in as the first tenants. The location at today's Kurt-Schumacher-Allee (at that time still Besenbinderhof ) was deliberately chosen because the traditional building complex of theHamburg Trade Union House and other labor movement organizations.

Rear view with stairwell

The seven-storey building is a typical example of post-war modernism with a stacked storey , grid facade and bright clinker brick elements. Noteworthy is a " French" balcony that occupies the entire width of the house in front of the conference room on the first floor. The semicircular staircase tower with green glass blocks on the back of the building is also striking and visible from afar . The house is registered in the Hamburg list of monuments under number 13746.

Today the house is mainly used by the state party, the SPD district association Hamburg-Mitte, the Juso state association and for parliamentary offices. Only the rooms on the ground floor are rented.

In front of the house, two stumbling blocks remind of the Social Democrats Wilhelm Bock and Ludwig Wellhausen, who were persecuted during the National Socialist era .

Web links

Commons : Kurt-Schumacher-Haus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jens Meyer-Wellmann: Kurt-Schumacher-Haus turns 50. August 24, 2007, accessed on June 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ List of monuments. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 7.5 ″  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 5.5 ″  E