Tommy Weisbecker House
The Tommy-Weisbecker-Haus (TWH) has been a self- managed residential collective in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg since March 1973 . It enables self-organized living and housing for adolescents and young adults with emergency sleeping places for the homeless , primary care and advice on problem situations and official matters. The Tommy-Weisbecker-Haus also offers the possibility of a permanent move-in for the homeless. The independent sponsor is the non-profit association Social Pedagogical Special Measures Berlin (SSB e.V.). It is named after Thomas Weisbecker , a terrorist from the June 2nd Movement .
history
In February 1973 the youth center drugstore in Berlin was occupied, with the demand for the vacant house at Wilhelmstrasse 9. On March 2, 1973, one year after Thomas Weisbecker was shot while attempting to arrest, a usage agreement and a usage contract was concluded.
Between the end of 1974 and the beginning of 1975 there was a conflict with the Berlin Senate Administration over home supervision in the TWH. A social worker position was promoted. While the conflict was still in progress, on March 5, 1975, the TWH was seriously destroyed by a police raid in search of the Berlin CDU MP Peter Lorenz , who was kidnapped by the terrorist organization Movement June 2 . This raid was part of the largest police operation in West Berlin after the Second World War with searches of 80 left-wing projects. On February 11, 1976, the Berlin CDU published a large number of leaflets distributed in Kreuzberg against the Georg von Rauch House and the Tommy Weisbecker House.
In mid-1976 the Senate paid 10,000 marks in damages for the destruction by the police . In 1980, a funding application was made for the renovation of the TWH, which was approved by the Berlin Senate in 1982 as part of self-help and the International Building Exhibition .
With the completion of the facade in 1989, the last construction work on the TWH was completed. The artist and former social worker Andreas Dornbusch was responsible for the implementation of the murals . The construction work was self-help.
In 1990, Café Line 1 opened . The completion of the “Schicksaal” event room makes larger concerts possible. Among other things, played here Rage Against the Machine (1996), Queens of the Stone Age , No Respect (2006), Moskovskaya (January 2007) and in the spring of 2007, Chumbawamba .
Due to its central location between Willy-Brandt-Haus and the ban mile around the government district , the TWH was classified as a security risk by Berlin politicians in the early 1990s.
Which originated from the "Hemp Days" in 1994 TWH Hemp Museum . In 1997 the first planning meeting of the alliance Hanfparade took place in the Tommy-Weisbecker-Haus .
In May 1997 the exhibition “ Crimes of the Wehrmacht in Yugoslavia 1941–1944” took place.
In 2007 the Berlin Senate stopped funding the jobs of a social worker, half an administrative position and a partially financed caretaker position. The reason given was the need to save by the state of Berlin.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Bambule. Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 7. 1973, accessed on December 30, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Bambule. Vol. 2, No. 5, p. 5. 1973, accessed on December 30, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Documents for the establishment of the Alliance Hanfparade e. V .: Hash rebels
- ^ Exhibition Crimes of the Wehrmacht in Yugoslavia 1941–1944 and accompanying program in May 1997 in the TWH ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 5 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 21 ″ E