Thomas Dehler House (Bonn)

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(New) Thomas-Dehler-Haus in Willy-Brandt-Allee, 2007.
(Old) Thomas Dehler House on Baunscheidtstrasse, 1990.

The Thomas-Dehler-Haus ( TDH ) is a building in the Bonn district of Gronau , which housed the party headquarters of the FDP from 1993 to 1999 . It is located on the west side of Willy-Brandt-Allee ( Bundesstraße 9 ) at number 20 in the area of ​​the federal district . The building is named after Thomas Dehler , the FDP federal chairman from 1954 to 1957.

The first party headquarters of the FDP was initially from June 1950 in Moltkestrasse 5 in Bad Godesberg . In November 1956 the company moved to the building of a former mental hospital at Bonn Talweg 57 in the southern part of the city . Between April 1976 and June 1993 the federal office of the FDP was located in a property at Baunscheidtstrasse 15 near the railway line on the left bank of the Rhine , which was rented by the SPD . The archive of the Federal Party and the archive of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation were housed here until 1983 , before they were transferred to the Theodor Heuss Academy in Gummersbach .

After acquiring a 2,100 square meter plot of land on Adenauerallee , the FDP organized a limited architectural competition in 1988 among eight participants for a new building for the party headquarters, from which the architects and engineering firm Geller + Müller in Euskirchen emerged victorious as the first prize winner and finally in 1989 with the Implementation was commissioned. The foundation stone for the new party headquarters, about 500 meters north of the previous party headquarters, was laid in October 1991 by the then FDP federal chairman Otto Graf Lambsdorff . After a year and a half of construction, he was able to inaugurate the building on June 4, 1993.

With the relocation of the seat of government , the FDP moved in July 1999 to Berlin to where in Berlin -based Federal office initially also named Thomas Dehler House wore before in March 2017 Hans-Dietrich Genscher house was renamed . The former Bonn party headquarters has since been used as an office and commercial building. It is still owned by the FDP, whose 100% subsidiary LIBERAL Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH is based there. The building currently houses the Innovation and Technology Center of the International Renewable Energy Agency ( IRENA ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liberals are planning new party headquarters on the B 9. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . May 31, 1988, p. 4.
  2. ^ Friedrich Busmann : From the parliament and government district to the federal quarter. A Bonn development measure 1974-2004. Edited by the Lord Mayor of Bonn. Bonn 2004, p. 45.
  3. ↑ FDP moves into new headquarters at B 9. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . June 5, 1993, p. 6.
  4. ↑ The time of the barracks is finally over. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . July 17, 1999, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Telecommunications company moves into the FDP headquarters. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger . March 24, 2000, p. 8.

Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 59.4 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 12.5 ″  E