The Borsig Palace (German: Palais Borsig) was an iconic building at the corner of Voßstraße and Wilhelmstraße in the center of Berlin and one of the grandest Italianate villas in Germany.[1] Completed in 1877 for industrialist Albert Borsig, who died before he could move in, the building served for a time as a bank. In 1933 it became the residence of Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, where dramatic scenes relating to the Night of the Long Knives would play out just one year later. In the aftermath, Palais Borsig was converted into the new headquarters of the Sturmabteilung (Storm Troopers) on Adolf Hitler's direct orders. It was then integrated into the New Reich Chancellery by Albert Speer in 1938. The palace was severely damaged in World War II and, together with Hitler's Chancellery, demolished by the Soviet forces in 1947.[2]
^Eva Kolinsky, Wilfried Van Der Will: The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture, (Cambridge University Press, 1998) p. 283 Online
^Christoph Neubauer: Albert Speer's Berlin: Die Voßstraße. (Frankfurt: Atelier Neubauer 2005) German/English Video, ISBN 978-3-9811593-4-9 Online Summary
The BorsigPalace (German: Palais Borsig) was an iconic building at the corner of Voßstraße and Wilhelmstraße in the center of Berlin and one of the grandest...
Borsig (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈkaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔaʊɡʊst ˈbɔʁzɪç]; 23 June 1804 – 6 July 1854) was a German businessman who founded the Borsig-Werke...
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Third Reich, Albert Speer relates how he was ordered to rebuild the BorsigPalace, to transfer the leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in, and to have...
it was finally purchased by the United Kingdom in 1884. In 1877 the BorsigPalace was erected on the corner with Voss-Strasse. After World War I the Palais...
association or for Beck’s opposition to Nazi policy. Herbert von Bose BorsigPalace, Berlin Press chief in the Prussian State Ministry and senior government...
(1874-76). He then began work on the monumental BorsigPalace (1875–77), completed for industrialist Albert Borsig, one of the grandest Italianate villas ever...
Tegel Palace was the site of a sanatorium, founded by the psychoanalyst Ernst Simmel (1882–1947). From 1898 on Tegel was the seat of the Borsig-Werke...
fulfilled. In October 1842 an 81.4 horsepower steam engine built by August Borsig started working and made the water jet of the Great Fountain below the vineyard...
examples of the style were Villa Meyer in Dresden, Villa Haas in Hesse, Palais Borsig in Berlin, Villa Meissner in Leipzig; the German version of Neo-Renaissance...
Hohenzollernplatz in Berlin, the Anzeiger Tower [de] in Hanover and the Borsig Tower [af] in Berlin. One of the largest Art Deco buildings in Western Europe...
into place. A building was erected especially for the steam engine (August Borsig) and its pump machine from 1841 to 1843 on the shore of the Havel. Disguised...
German-Greek credit agreement which enabled Greek purchases from Rheinmetall-Borsig; some of German products were later re-exported to Republican Spain. However...
its larger night fighters or strategic bomber designs would have been the Borsig firm's "quadmount", hydraulically powered Hecklafette HL 131V manned tail...
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rebelled in the "Berlin Indignation" against the construction of a new royal palace by Elector Frederick II Irontooth. This protest was not successful, however...
against the Anti-Socialist Laws shoulder to shoulder with workers from Borsig locomotive works in Berlin. Alarm in the Circus (Alarm im Zirkus), 1954...
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the reconstruction Wilhelmstraße 77, Berlin (demolished) 1875–1877 Palais Borsig, figures of engineers and inventors on the facade, with sculptors Reinhold...
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