Arnim's villa (Potsdam)

The Villa von Arnim is in Potsdam-Babelsberg located in Karl-Marx-Straße 25 Villa . It is part of the villa colony of Neubabelsberg am Griebnitzsee founded by the architects Wilhelm Böckmann and Hermann Ende from 1871 . It was named after the lawyer and local politician Dietloff von Arnim (1876–1945), Brandenburg governor and administrator of the provincial association. During National Socialism, Karl-Marx-Straße was temporarily called the Straße der SA after it was originally laid out under the name Kaiserstraße as a representative avenue between the Neubabelsberg train station (today: Potsdam Griebnitzsee train station ) and the main entrance to the imperial Babelsberg park .

In the official residence in summer lingered 1943 Arnim's brother, the officer of the armed forces and resistance fighters against the Nazis Henning von Tresckow , the conspiratorial about the nearby Berlin meetings among others with Ludwig Beck , Carl Friedrich Goerdeler and Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg organized, and his wife Erika, b. by Falkenhayn. Together with General Friedrich Olbricht , Head of the Armed Forces Substitute Office at the Wehrmacht High Command , he prepared the Walküre operation here in August and September 1943 while his children were being sent to the countryside .

Web links

Website Villa Arnim

literature

Christiane Kruse : Who lived where in Potsdam? (= Stürtz search for traces ) Stürtz, Würzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8003-4704-9 , p. 114 f.

Individual evidence

^ Gabriele Detterer: A walk through Neubabelsberg near Potsdam. Villa colony with an eventful past. nzz.ch , May 3, 2001.
↑ ^a ^b Peter Hoffmann : Colonel i. G. Henning von Tresckow and the coup plans in 1943 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 55 (2007) 2, pp. 331–364, here: p. 338 ( PDF ).
^ Dieter Weirauch: Beverly Hills at the Griebnitzsee. After the riverside dispute, the fairy tale villas are a magnet for walkers . In: Die Welt , vol. 59, October 11, 2004, No. 238, p. 33.

52.403864 13.1096Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 13.9 ″ N , 13 ° 6 ′ 34.6 ″ E

[1] Gabriele Detterer: A walk through Neubabelsberg near Potsdam. Villa colony with an eventful past. nzz.ch , May 3, 2001.

[Hoffmann-2] Peter Hoffmann : Colonel i. G. Henning von Tresckow and the coup plans in 1943 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 55 (2007) 2, pp. 331–364, here: p. 338 ( PDF ).

[3] Dieter Weirauch: Beverly Hills at the Griebnitzsee. After the riverside dispute, the fairy tale villas are a magnet for walkers . In: Die Welt , vol. 59, October 11, 2004, No. 238, p. 33.