Villa Wilhelma (Bonn)

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The Villa Wilhelma is a former government building in Bad Godesberg , a district of Bonn . It is located in the Rüngsdorf district on Karl-Finkelnburg-Straße (house number 19).

history

The building was built in 1894 as a guesthouse . In 1926 it was acquired by the newly founded Community of the Holy Angels under the leadership of Franz Xaver Geyer , who trained novices there and later also set up a secondary school. In 1934 the community moved to Bad Staffelstein . From 1935 to 1938 the building was one of four Godesberg locations of the SA -Hilfswerk Nord-West as the successor organization of the Austrian Legion , which was recruited from Austrian National Socialists who had fled to the German Reich . In 1938 it housed the SA group school Niederrhein, later it went toWehrmacht possession over. In 1943 the villa was the temporary location of the Cologne Gestapo .

After Bonn in 1949 the seat of government had become the Federal Republic of Germany, in straightened Cologne-Wahn resident British High Commission - Office of the British High Commissioner and part of the Allied High Commission - in the villa its representative office in the enclave Bonn one. At that time it comprised 44 rooms on a good 1,000  m² . Following the conversion of the British High Commission into a regular embassy in connection with the expiry of the Occupation Statute , the villa was initially home to the embassy’s cultural department ( Universities Section ). Later (as of 1959) it was used by the Land Survey Office of North Rhine-Westphalia . The Federal Ministry of Health then took over the property, which housed the “Food and Veterinary Medicine” department (as of 1968) and temporarily employed 47 people (as of 1974). Another user was the German Youth Brand Foundation (as of 1977/78). In 1989 the building was rebuilt so that it is now home to apartments and medical practices.

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Individual evidence

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  6. ^ Hermann Wandersleb (Ed.): The accommodation of the federal organs in Bonn . Düsseldorf undated (October 1949), pp. 38, 59 (ill.).
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  8. ^ Wilhelm Viëtor (ed.); Adolf Bohlen The Newer Languages: Journal for Modern Language Teaching , Diesterweg, 1959, p. 152.
  9. ↑ Kartographische Nachrichten, Volume 9, Issues 1-4 , German Society for Cartography, Velhagen & Klasing, 1959, p. 30.
  10. ^ Association of German food manufacturers and dealers for food science and food law , Food Industry Group (ed.): Deutsche Lebensmittel-Rundschau , Volume 64, Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1968, p. 93.
  11. ^ Dietrich Höroldt: 25 Years Federal Capital Bonn: A Documentation . In: Publications of the Bonn City Archives , Volume 14, Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag, 1974, ISBN 978-3-7928-0374-5 , p. 143.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 0.8 ″  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 2.4 ″  E