Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service

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Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service
View from the Südpanke green corridor

The headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service is the headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). This has been in Berlin , Chausseestrasse  96 , since February 8, 2019. From the foundation of the BND on April 1, 1956 until the official opening of the Berlin headquarters, the BND had its headquarters in the BND property in Pullach, south of Munich . The headquarters, which is designed for 4,000 employees, was occupied between 2014 and 2018 and is currently occupied by around 3,200 employees.

main building

The main building in the Mitte district, designed by the architects Kleihues + Kleihues , is the largest building in Berlin after the Berlin-Tempelhof Airport with 5200 rooms, 20,000 tons of steel and 135,000 m³ of concrete . It consists of a three-wing structure that is 270 meters long, 160 meters wide and 30 meters high. Long corridors run through, from which small functional offices for two employees each branch off. There are height-adjustable desks inside. Each employee will receive two PCs . One is used for normal communication, the second is connected to the internal network. A total of 300,000 km of cable have been laid, 20,000 of which are fiber optic cables .

Darkened and tap-proof windows protect the rooms from eavesdropping. Maak made the following comparison in free association with the iconography of the building : "The parts of the building also look like a somewhat perplexed assembly of oversized, gigantic PC cases , in whose gigantic drives everything that can be stored is stored."

North development

Entrance to the parking garage in the north building

The technical and logistics center with a combined heat and power unit is located in the northern development at Chausseestraße 94-97 . It was handed over to the BND by the Federal Real Estate Agency in November 2013 and the first employees moved in in March 2014. The building, the construction of which started in 2008, has a gross floor area of ​​60,000 m², a usable area of ​​19,000 m² and was constructed by the architects Henn with the help of the Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht offices . The central supply and disposal takes place via the security lock in the northern development. Imtech took over the heating, cooling and power supply of the property with a total volume of 140 million euros for a period of 15 years.

South development

The southern development on Habersaathstrasse was designed by the Lehmann architectural office from Offenburg , started in 2011 and completed in 2016. The gross floor area is 19,000 m², the usable area 9,500 m².

Center for intelligence training and advanced training

Center for intelligence training and advanced training

The Center for Intelligence Service Training (ZNAF), a joint project of the BND and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), is located in the southern development . In addition to workshops and chemistry laboratories, there are 110 boarding-house apartments available.

Visitor center

Entrance to the visitor center

The BND visitor center is on the corner of Habersaathstrasse and Chausseestrasse. It was opened in April 2019 for registered groups of visitors. A multimedia and interactive exhibition has been added since the beginning of November 2019. 15,000 visitors a year can be received over 400 square meters on two floors. The BND provides information about its mandate, its work and its control there. With more openness, he would like to reduce resentment towards his work and recruit new employees. The more than 120 exhibits on display include an explosive vest , a shoulder-supported surface-to-air missile , a gas centrifuge , means of transport such as Gabriele Gast's handbag , Erich Honecker's BND files and a submachine gun from Reinhard Gehlen . The management of sources and the evaluation of images obtained with reconnaissance satellites are explained using the example of North Korea as methods of obtaining news . International terrorism , cyber attacks , illegal migration and the arms trade are named as awareness- raising goals .

architectural art

One of the two steel palm trees (with shadow) as art in architecture , 2013

In the area of ​​the representative driveway of the main building is a 9.6 × 19.8 × 4.2 meter monolithic body made of Corten steel by the artist Stefan Sous. “As a self-sufficient, strange, unfathomable thing, the sculpture gives a subtle reference to the function of the BND: clearing up the unknown and keeping one's own secrets.” In the courtyard of the school and boarding wing there is “Baumgarten's railing” with a table resting on its side by Monika Brandmeier. On the back of the building towards Pankepark are two 22-meter-high steel palm trees with a green trunk and a green crown. The work of art is called "0 ° latitude" and is by Ulrich Brüschke. This sparked speculation as to whether eavesdropping technology was installed there. It was inspired by radio masts disguised as trees. In Atrium 3 there is a large lettering “The last wheat was still standing”, in Atrium 1 “It is night and the Budapest train station is quiet and beautiful”.

In the night from March 2nd to 3rd, 2015, strangers dismantled five water taps on the fourth to sixth floors of the new building on the guarded construction site. The escaping water flooded parts of the BND building. The moisture penetrated into false ceilings, cable ducts and the ventilation. A ceiling partially broke through. The damage should run into the millions.

In addition, there were reports of botched construction and problems with the ventilation system , which led to construction delays.

history

Construction site of the BND headquarters (February 2010)

The approximately 260,000 m² site of today's headquarters was originally on the edge of the so-called Tierra del Fuego . A parade ground was created on the site in 1820. In the middle of the 19th century the barracks of the Guard Fusilier Regiment , called the cockchafer barracks, were built . Hans Leip , who was stationed there in 1915, composed the text of the famous soldier song Lili Marleen in the guard room . After the First World War , the Berlin police used the barracks and the parade ground and built the police stadium here in 1929 . The barracks were largely destroyed in the Second World War . On the occasion of the III. World Festival of Youth and Students , the German Democratic Republic had the Walter Ulbricht Stadium built on the site of rubble , which was renamed the World Youth Stadium in 1973 . After its demolition in 1992, buildings were to be built there for the 2000 Olympic Games , for which Berlin had applied. After the failure of the Olympic application, the open area was used for various temporary uses until 2006.

In August 2005, the federal government bought the property from the state of Berlin for 66.67 million euros. The building owner of the project is the Federal Agency for Real Estate Tasks . The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) is responsible for planning and building construction .

With the gradual takeover of the central situation management for the Federal Ministry of Defense and the Bundeswehr , 270 new posts have been set up at the BND. Further employees for the ZNBw , in Gelsdorf near Bonn in the previous service, should therefore move to the headquarters in Berlin.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the building complex followed on October 19, 2006. At the end of March 2014, the first 174 employees moved into their new offices. Most of them came from the previous office in Lichterfelde .

construction

Aerial view of the headquarters under construction (2012)

The total costs amounted to 1.085 billion euros plus the land costs of 66.67 million euros. In detail (according to DIN 276 ), the renovation and development cost 17.2 million, the construction of the building 395.7 million, the technical facilities of the building 356.5 million, the outdoor facilities 16.7 million and the furnishings and works of art 2.3 Million Euros. The ancillary construction costs , which include planning services and provisions for legal disputes, amounted to 297.2 million euros. Guarding during the construction period cost 8.6 million euros.

The federal government and BND initially estimated the construction costs at 720 million euros. The Federal Audit Office estimated the costs to be considerably higher. At the topping-out ceremony on March 25, 2010 on Chausseestrasse, the expected costs were already estimated at 790 million euros.

In April 2014, the FAZ columnist Niklas Maak had praised: “Compared to other major projects, the costs remained within reasonable limits: The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning had expected costs of 720 million euros, but 912.4 million - not times 200 million more expensive than planned. "

At the end of 2013, the client stated the total costs including relocation costs at 1.3 billion euros. In December 2014, according to government information, the total construction costs were EUR 1.04425 billion and the total expenditure including relocation costs was estimated at EUR 1.58885 billion.

Breakdowns and delays

At the beginning of July 2011 the magazine Focus published a report according to which construction plans for the Berlin BND headquarters had been stolen over a year earlier. According to media reports, these plans should reveal representations of the technology and logistics center, such as emergency exits, locks, alarm systems, door and ceiling thickness, cable ducts and anti-terror facilities. A commission was then set up to investigate the incident. A partial new building of the BND headquarters was ruled out by the head of the secret service Ernst Uhrlau . Contrary to media reports, the published plans do not affect the heart of the BND headquarters, but the north building, which houses a parking garage, the energy center, and the supply and disposal. The construction plans are classified in the lowest level of secrecy “VS-ONLY FOR SERVICE USE”.

opening

The BND headquarters opened on February 8, 2019 after more than twelve years of construction. Chancellor Angela Merkel gave the opening speech.

environment

The section of Chausseestrasse between Schwartzkopffstrasse and Liesenstrasse or between Boyenstrasse and Habersaathstrasse has been experiencing a real construction boom since the start of construction work for the BND headquarters. Even at the rear of the BND towards Scharnhorststrasse, new apartments and the Pankepark have already been built. Numerous restaurants, cafés, guest houses and hotels have sprung up so far, all of which want to benefit from the proximity to the BND. Mention should be made of the Café Top Secret - Café am BND , the Café-Restaurant Jette , a new hotel of the Titanic chain , the Garden Homes residential complex . The Tierra del Fuego courtyards are still under construction opposite the entrance to the BND. They consist of an office complex with a dental practice and retail stores as well as exclusive rental apartments.

literature

  • The big secret. New building of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in Berlin . In: Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (Ed.): Bau und Raum Jahrbuch 2017 . Self-published, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-87994-215-2 , pp. 14-35 .
  • Arno Lederer and Walter Noebel: BND. The headquarters . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 978-3-7757-4350-1 .

Web links

Commons : Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 1 ″  N , 13 ° 22 ′ 36 ″  E