excursion to the ADGB school of Hannes Meyer and Hans Wittwer in Bernau

on Saturday, October, 1st, 2011 9:45 am
Because the number of participants is restricted to 15, we kindly ask for an immediate response.

The tour costs 14 euros, reduced it's 7 euros.
This includes the entrance fee. Professor Förster gives us a competent insight.
He was teaching at the institution from 1951 to it's end, when the wall came down. Since than he is one of the leading figures to make this monument to a living place. He strongly worked for the keeping of the monument, or aedequat uses and for a save financiation.
meeting point is the train station of Bernau. You can take the S2 via Friedrichstraße (half an hour) and Gesundbrunnen or a region train (RE 18310) via Hauptbahnhof (half an hour).
We meet 9:45 am in front of the station and could go to a small turkish Imbiss on the left side of the square.
From there we take the bus 903 at 10:06 to Waldfrieden. Don't miss this.

From there it's a 5 minutes walk.
If you come by car, meet us at 10:20 in front of the ADGB school.

The tour will end in a place with drinks and food and discussions at the Ausflugslokal nearby. Buses back go every 2 hours.

Bundesschule des ADGB

In 1927 the Federal School of the Allgemeinen Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes (ADGB), the General Federation of German Trade Unions decided to built a main school. The competition was won by the director of the Bauhaus in Dessau, Hannes Meyer. Planning started in 1928, by May 1930 it was opened.
It's the biggest Bauhaus building and the most "sober", or even relaxed, and is a landmark of the Neue Sachlichkeit.

In 1933 the building was squatted by the SA, that destroyed the structure of the ADGB and later installed here the Reichs-school of the NSDAP.In 1936 it got the seminar and educational institution for SS, SD and Gestapo. Here the SS did the training for the Gleiwitz incident, which was the staged attack by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, as the key propaganda to justify the German attack and subsequent invasion of Poland one day later.
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Hannes Meyer

Born in 1889 in Basel, died in 1954 in Crociffisso di Savosa

Hans Wittwer

Hans Wittwer was born in 1894 in Basel, where he also died in 1952.

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