Aviation Security Center Berlin
The Air Safety Center Berlin , English: Berlin Air Safety Center (BASC) from 1945 and 1990 Agency of the four allied occupying powers United States , Britain , France and the Soviet Union in Berlin-Schöneberg , which monitored the air traffic in the Berlin area and controlled. This included the airspace of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic . The Allied Aviation Security Center in Berlin, along with the Spandau War Crimes Prison (Allied Prison Spandau), was the only facility operated by the four Allied powers and existed during the Cold War .
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On November 30, 1945, the Allied Control Council decided to set up an air security center. The authority, which was founded on December 13, 1945, had its seat at Elßholzstrasse 32 in Berlin-Schöneberg of the former Prussian Chamber Court in Kleistpark , where the Allied Control Council was located after 1945 .
It began its work in February 1946 and regulated every flight in the Berlin Control Zone (BCZ) within a radius of 64 km as well as the corridors that extended from Berlin to the borders of the neighboring control districts. These included the air corridors Hamburg-Berlin, Bückeburg / Hanover-Berlin and Frankfurt am Main-Berlin. On October 22, 1946, the four-power agreement of the Aviation Directorate of the Allied Control Commission on the air security center “Flight regulations for aircraft flying the air corridors in Germany and the Berlin control zone ” came into force. Every military and civil flight through one of these three air corridors, each 32 kilometers wide, had to be reported to the air security center 40 minutes before flying over GDR territory. Even during the Berlin Airlift in 1948, the allied air security center was responsible for the clearance (Air Traffic Clearance) of every single flight to Berlin.
Although the Soviet Union blocked the Allied Control Council's decision- making from March 20, 1948 in protest against the London Six Power Conference and the establishment of the Brussels Pact and this no longer met, the former Allies worked in the air security center until the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War together and the agency was officially dissolved on December 31, 1990.
Web links
- Joachim Nawrocki : What was left of the Control Council . The work of the Allied Travel Office and the Aviation Security Center. In: Die Zeit No. 9/1970 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v03/d1204
- ↑ https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v03/d1206
- ↑ DM Giangreco, Robert E. Griffin: Airbridge to Berlin - The Berlin Crisis of 1948, its Origins and Aftermath , 1998
Coordinates: 52 ° 29 ′ 32 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 25 ″ E