Villa Ingenheim

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Villa Ingenheim

The Villa Ingenheim is a traditional building in the Brandenburg suburb in the west of Potsdam . In the Zeppelinstraße 127/128 (to DDR -times: Lenin avenue), this property is today by the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr used (ZMSBw) and is a military area .

history

In 1825, the Berlin senior medical officer Friedrich August Walter began building the villa in the Italian style on the site of a former brick factory. In the middle of the 19th century the property became the property of Count Gustav Adolf Wilhelm von Ingenheim (1789–1855), son of Friedrich Wilhelm II , King of Prussia, and Julie von Voss . Ingelsheim's son Julius sold the house to the main line of the Hohenzollern family in 1894 .

The new owners had extensive extensions and renovations carried out at the beginning of the 20th century. Then Prince Eitel Friedrich - the second son of Kaiser Wilhelm II  - and his wife, Duchess Sophie Charlotte von Oldenburg , took up residence here. After the couple divorced in 1926 until his death in 1942, the prince lived in the building. During the Second World War , parts of the villa were rented out, occupied by bombed-out families and used by military units towards the end of the war.

After the occupation of Potsdam by the Red Army in 1945, the Soviet intelligence service NKVD moved in , used the rooms until 1953 and interrogated citizens imprisoned there. In the same year the villa was transferred to the barracked People's Police , in 1956 to the National People's Army (NVA) and the staff of the 1st Motorized Rifle Division .

In 1958 the use of the property began through the Military History Institute of the GDR (MGI) and 1,964 outsourced from military archives of the GDR . In addition, a telecommunication center and telephone exchange for the NVA were built on the site in the 1970s. After the reunification of Germany, the Military History Institute was dissolved in 1992. During a transitional period up to 1994, the Central Investigation Group for Government and Association Crime (ZERV) used the holdings of the military archive here.

With the German reunification in 1990 the Military History Institute of the GDR was dissolved and temporarily became a branch of the Military History Research Office (MGFA) of the Bundeswehr . In 1992, the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , General Klaus Naumann , announced during a visit to the MGFA that it would be relocated to Potsdam, which led to protests from politics and the office's workforce. In the period from November 1, 1993 to October 31, 1994, according to OrgBefehl No. 13/93 of July 5, 1993, it moved to the MGI's location, the Villa Ingelheim in Potsdam. From September 23, 1994 Villa Ingenheim was the official seat of the Military History Research Office (MGFA) after it was moved from Freiburg im Breisgau to Potsdam. In 1995 the MGFA library in the villa became publicly accessible. In 1996 the villa began to be rebuilt and renovated. After completing the first section, Federal Defense Minister Volker Rühe handed over the keys for the renovated Villa Ingenheim on May 7, 1998. The MGFA was dissolved on December 31, 2012 and merged with the ZMSBw, which was newly established on January 1, 2013 and is now the user.

The NVA's telecommunications center and telephone exchange was used by the Bundeswehr until 2009: from April 1, 1991 to November 30, 1994 by the " Area Telecommunications  Guide  838" and from October 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009 by the " Telecommunications Sector 706".

literature

  • Jörg Duppler , Hans Ehlert , Arnim Lang (eds.): The Villa Ingenheim in Potsdam. From the Hohenzollern Palace to the Military History Research Office . On behalf of the Military History Research Office. be.bra Wissenschaft verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-937233-51-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of MGFA. In: Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr . Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ MGFA. In: Bundeswehr location database . www.zmsbw.de, accessed on April 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ BerFmFhr 838. In: Location database of the Bundeswehr . www.zmsbw.de, accessed on April 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ FmSkt 706. In: Site Database Bundeswehr . www.zmsbw.de, accessed on April 5, 2020 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 10.1 ″  N , 13 ° 1 ′ 32.4 ″  E