News School (Flensburg-Mürwik)

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The news school in Flensburg - Mürwik in Mürwiker Straße 201-203 was built in the 1920s on the Flensburg-Mürwik base located there . It was one of several naval intelligence schools established in Germany . Their barracks and school buildings from the 1930s are now registered as Mürwik's cultural monuments. More details on the schools that later used the building complex can be found in the respective articles.

history

Establishment and construction of the school

In 1920, the premises of the torpedo school were initially used to set up the news school. She took over signal , telex and radio training for the entire Reichsmarine . From 1925 to 1934 both schools were merged under the name Torpedo and News School. In September 1934 the two schools were separated again. In the period after that, the news school was also known as the Marine News School Mürwik.

Current school name under the old sovereign eagle which was designed in this form in the time of National Socialism and today has a warning function. (2014)

The buildings, which are still in military use today, were built for the school in the 1930s in the direct vicinity of the Mürwik Naval School . They were built throughout in the form of cubic , flat-roofed clinker buildings, to which National Socialist architectural elements were added. From 1933 to 1939 the buildings “Brandenburg”, “Hansa” and “Prussia” as well as the ensign's home (today: officers' home) and the school building were built. The gate building, "Germany", was built between 1937 and 1939. The building names are reminiscent of the traditional German maritime history of the Hanseatic League and Navy . The towers on the school buildings are modeled on the bridges of warships and were part of the training in flag signaling. A large stone imperial eagle was placed above the entrance portal of the monumental building "Germany", and above it a flagpole, on which the German flag is now hoisted.

The German Armed Forces published the following statement on the portal's very conspicuous eagle : “The eagle symbol above the gatehouse is a denazified national emblem from the time of National Socialism . In its current form, it is legally harmless. [...] The eagle is still the heraldic animal of the Federal Republic of Germany. [...] At the time of National Socialism, the symbol of the eagle was associated with the swastika . [...] Most of the new Wehrmacht barracks built from 1934 on [...] received an artistic design of the National Socialist emblem. [...] The eagle sculpture is a pictorial remnant of German military history of the 20th century. Only a few [...] have survived. They are tokens of remembrance at a historical location and at the same time, in their changed shape on a building that is still used by the military, as a bookmark for the position of the armed forces in a dictatorship or a democracy and are therefore extremely useful for historical and political education . [...] The barracks in Flensburg is also entered in the list of monuments of Schleswig-Holstein . Thus, a [...] reversibility has been put in a stop. ”A board set up by the portal also explains the aforementioned relationships today.

On May 28, 1936, before all the buildings were completed, Adolf Hitler made a top secret and therefore not public visit to the harbor in front of the Mürwik Naval School . Hitler visited the naval school as well as parts of the news school. Among other things, Hitler took down the parade of the news department during his visit. In the evening Hitler also took part in the night torpedo shooting of the armored ship Admiral Graf Spee , which arrived at the same time .

The school at the end of the Second World War

The buildings of the news school were not hit during the air raids on Flensburg during the Second World War . During the air raid on 2/3 In May 1945 he went to school, at the terminus of tram line 3 in front of the large barracks gate, four explosive bombs dropped an air force helper and six soldiers. In the last days of the war, the building complex was in the special area of ​​Mürwik . The communication systems of the news school served the last Reich government under Karl Dönitz as a command station. The Reich government was arrested on May 23, 1945.

Renovation work on the building complex in 2015 which should continue until 2020.

Use after the war

Immediately after the war, the buildings at Mürwiker Strasse 201–203 were used by British soldiers as barracks ( Quantock Barracks ). It was also used to accommodate refugees and displaced persons . On June 21, 1945, the allied (British-American) TICOM ( Target Intelligence Committee ) also recorded a (then) highly secret protocol of an interrogation of the German naval officer, Lt. zS Hans-Joachim Frowein and the German cryptanalyst Wilhelm Tranow created that dealt with their own investigations into the security of the Enigma-M4 in 1944. During this time, the British journalist and secret service employee Sefton Delmer recruited employees of the naval intelligence service , which was relocated to Mürwik in the last days of the war , apparently including Tranow. With their help, Delmer founded Germany's first news agency in Hamburg in August 1945 , the German News Service , which was later given the German name Deutscher Pressedienst .

On October 27, 1945, the Provincial Training School Schleswig-Holstein ( Police School of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein) was set up in the news school by order of the British occupying forces . In March 1946 this school was relocated to the former naval training barracks in Eckernförde-Carlshöhe and renamed the " Schleswig-Holstein State Police School ". The school in question remained there until it was moved to Kiel in July 1950 . She then moved to Eutin , spent a long time in the nearby Malente and currently again in Eutin itself. In 1948 the British soldiers withdrew and Norwegian soldiers moved into their accommodation in the barracks. The Norwegians, who also took over the location at the Grenzland barracks from the British, stayed for the next five years. From 1952, the Federal Border Guard used the building of the news school. The last Norwegian soldiers left Flensburg on April 29, 1953 on the ship "Svalbard".

In 1956, the building units were finally taken over by the newly established Naval Telecommunications School . There were also a few other naval units . In the 1970s, additional accommodation buildings were built on the site. The naval telecommunications school existed until 2002. In the following year, the newly established school for strategic reconnaissance of the Bundeswehr moved into the area.

Web links

Commons : Message School Flensburg-Mürwik  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • TICOM / I-38: Report on Interrogation of Lt. Frowein of OKM / 4 SKL III, on his Work on the Security of the German Naval Four-Wheel Enigma. Naval News School Flensburg on June 21, 1945, archive.org (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ School for Strategic Reconnaissance of the Bundeswehr: Chronicle of the barracks. (PDF; 334 kB) In: Armed forces base. Bundeswehr, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Joachim Beckh: Blitz & Anker, Volume 1: Information Technology - History and Backgrounds. Book on Demand 2005, page 420
  3. ↑ See Flensburger Tageblatt : 1284 to 2009: Die Stadtchronik , from: January 1, 2009; Retrieved on: January 12, 2015
  4. ↑ Joachim Beckh: Blitz & Anker, Volume 1: Information Technology - History and Backgrounds. Book on Demand 2005, page 421
  5. ↑ See Adlerplastik ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: April 15, 2015
  6. ↑ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 544
  7. ↑ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg, 2015, page 129
  8. ^ Dieter-Jürgen Mehlhorn: Architecture in Schleswig-Holstein. From the Middle Ages to the Present, page 140
  9. ↑ Die Welt : The Nazi Buildings Are Better Than Their Reputation , dated: June 24, 2010; Retrieved on: July 2, 2017
  10. ↑ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 544
  11. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 2, Flensburg, page 544
  12. ^ School for Strategic Reconnaissance of the Bundeswehr: Chronicle of the barracks. (PDF; 334 kB) In: Armed forces base. Bundeswehr, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 .
  13. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 2, Flensburg, page 544
  14. ↑ Eiko Wenzel, Henrik Gram: Zeitzeichen, Architektur in Flensburg, 2015, page 130
  15. ↑ See Adlerplastik ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on: April 15, 2015
  16. ↑ Flensburg Journal : When Adelsby was still a village ( memento from February 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), from: February 23, 2018; accessed on: February 23, 2018
  17. ↑ Harald Sandner: Hitler - Das Itinerar (Volume III): Places of residence and journeys from 1889 to 1945 - Volume III: 1934-1939 . Berlin Story Verlag, 2017,
  18. ↑ Hitler at the Marineschule Mürwik in 1936 and Hitler at the König Wilhelmbrücke in 1936 , each accessed on: February 28, 2018
  19. ^ Broder Schwensen , Dieter Nickel : Flensburg in the air war 1939-1945. Flensburg 2009, p. 163
  20. ^ School for Strategic Reconnaissance of the Bundeswehr: Chronicle of the barracks. (PDF; 334 kB) In: Armed forces base. Bundeswehr, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 .
  21. ↑ Flensburger Tageblatt : Location Flensburg / Glücksburg: 60 million euros for the reconnaissance , from: April 22, 2015; accessed on: August 14, 2016
  22. ↑ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 2, Flensburg, p. 544
  23. ↑ Flensburg. Hereford Barracks. Quantock Barracks , accessed: July 10, 2017
  24. ↑ See list of closed British military locations in Germany # Schleswig-Holstein
  25. ^ School for Strategic Reconnaissance of the Bundeswehr: Chronicle of the barracks. (PDF; 334 kB) In: Armed forces base. Bundeswehr, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 .
  26. ↑ New career for the code breakers. In: Spiegel online . November 26, 2010, accessed December 4, 2017.
  27. ↑ sh: z : Meeting of the last "Carlshöhe police officers" , from: April 11, 2011; Retrieved on: August 14, 2016
  28. ↑ sh: z : 90 refugees in the state police school , from: July 14, 2015; Retrieved on: August 14, 2016
  29. ↑ sh: z : Eutin Police School: Breyer: Suspicion due to false suspicion is off the table , from: August 10, 2016; Retrieved on: August 14, 2016
  30. ^ Lutz Wilde : Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Schleswig-Holstein, Volume 2, Flensburg, page 544
  31. ↑ Flensburg. Hereford Barracks. Quantock Barracks , accessed: July 10, 2017
  32. ↑ Flensburg. Hereford Barracks. Quantock Barracks , accessed: July 10, 2017
  33. ^ School for Strategic Reconnaissance of the Bundeswehr: Chronicle of the barracks. (PDF; 334 kB) In: Armed forces base. Bundeswehr, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 .
  34. ^ Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (ed.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 411
  35. ↑ Flensburg. Hereford Barracks. Quantock Barracks , accessed: July 10, 2017
  36. ^ School for Strategic Reconnaissance of the Bundeswehr: Chronicle of the barracks. (PDF; 334 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Armed forces basis. Bundeswehr, archived from the original on September 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kommando.streitkraeftebasis.de

Coordinates: 54 ° 48 ′ 37.9 ″  N , 9 ° 27 ′ 28.7 ″  E