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Palace of the Reich President
The Reich President's Palace (German: Reichspräsidentenpalais) was from 1919 to 1934 an official residence of the President of the Reich and the official seat of the German head of state.
The palace was located at Wilhelmstrasse No. 73 in Berlin and housed the Office of the Reich President, which regulated all matters related to the function of the Reich President as a state institution. Private apartments of the President and some of his employees were located in the Palace as well as various representation and reception rooms.
The building, which later served as the Reich President's Palace, was built between 1735 and 1737 at the instigation of King Frederick William I of Prussia. For the western Friedrichstadt Extension handsome buildings were to be built on the later Wilhelmstrasse; in return, the king awarded inexpensive land and contributed building materials. In 1734, the Geheimrat of the General Superior Finance, War and Domains Directorate and Landjägermeister Hans Bogislav von Schwerin received a building site for a palace and building material worth 40,000 thalers. On August 29, 1737, he and his brother Kurt Christoph von Schwerin received the palace as an hereditary property. Kurt Christoph soon abandoned his share of the property.
The builder was the Berliner Conrad Wiesend ; Frenchmen (from the Berlin Huguenot community) may also have been involved in the design of the representative building in Style Louis XV. The design was later completed with several large-scale murals by Bernhard Rode.
After the death of Hans Bogislaw in 1747, his brother Kurt Christoph was given guardianship over his children. On April 2, 1757, a few weeks before his death in the Battle of Prague, he sold the palace, including its furnishings, for 50,000 thalers to Stephan Peter Oliver, Count of Wallis.
In 1769, the Minister of State Valentin von Massow acquired the property for 14,000 thalers. In 1777 it was sold for 22,700 thalers to the chief chamberlain, Reichsgraf Carl von der Osten-Sacken. Until 1811, Osten-Sacken's widow Christiane Charlotte Sophie, born Baroness von Dieskau, was owner of the palace. Her only child, a daughter from her first marriage to Julius Gebhard, imperial count von Hoym, was disowned because of high indebtedness, so that of their six children Prince Friedrich August Carl von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Ingelfingen became the sole heir of the palace. He had to sell the house in 1816 to pay off his father's debts.
From 1816 the court book printer Georg Andreas Reimer used the representative rooms for his family, his publishing house and a literary salon, while the wings also worked like a factory. After his death in 1842, his son Georg Ernst Reimer continued his main business in Wilhelmstrasse until 1858.
The Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV bought the building in 1858. Henceforth it housed the Ministry of the Royal Family and thus among other things the private wealth management of the House of Hohenzollern. House ministers who resided in the palace included Alexander von Schleinitz (1862–1885) and August zu Eulenburg (1914–1918).
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Palace of the Reich President
The Reich President's Palace (German: Reichspräsidentenpalais) was from 1919 to 1934 an official residence of the President of the Reich and the official seat of the German head of state.
The palace was located at Wilhelmstrasse No. 73 in Berlin and housed the Office of the Reich President, which regulated all matters related to the function of the Reich President as a state institution. Private apartments of the President and some of his employees were located in the Palace as well as various representation and reception rooms.
The building, which later served as the Reich President's Palace, was built between 1735 and 1737 at the instigation of King Frederick William I of Prussia. For the western Friedrichstadt Extension handsome buildings were to be built on the later Wilhelmstrasse; in return, the king awarded inexpensive land and contributed building materials. In 1734, the Geheimrat of the General Superior Finance, War and Domains Directorate and Landjägermeister Hans Bogislav von Schwerin received a building site for a palace and building material worth 40,000 thalers. On August 29, 1737, he and his brother Kurt Christoph von Schwerin received the palace as an hereditary property. Kurt Christoph soon abandoned his share of the property.
The builder was the Berliner Conrad Wiesend ; Frenchmen (from the Berlin Huguenot community) may also have been involved in the design of the representative building in Style Louis XV. The design was later completed with several large-scale murals by Bernhard Rode.
After the death of Hans Bogislaw in 1747, his brother Kurt Christoph was given guardianship over his children. On April 2, 1757, a few weeks before his death in the Battle of Prague, he sold the palace, including its furnishings, for 50,000 thalers to Stephan Peter Oliver, Count of Wallis.
In 1769, the Minister of State Valentin von Massow acquired the property for 14,000 thalers. In 1777 it was sold for 22,700 thalers to the chief chamberlain, Reichsgraf Carl von der Osten-Sacken. Until 1811, Osten-Sacken's widow Christiane Charlotte Sophie, born Baroness von Dieskau, was owner of the palace. Her only child, a daughter from her first marriage to Julius Gebhard, imperial count von Hoym, was disowned because of high indebtedness, so that of their six children Prince Friedrich August Carl von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Ingelfingen became the sole heir of the palace. He had to sell the house in 1816 to pay off his father's debts.
From 1816 the court book printer Georg Andreas Reimer used the representative rooms for his family, his publishing house and a literary salon, while the wings also worked like a factory. After his death in 1842, his son Georg Ernst Reimer continued his main business in Wilhelmstrasse until 1858.
The Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm IV bought the building in 1858. Henceforth it housed the Ministry of the Royal Family and thus among other things the private wealth management of the House of Hohenzollern. House ministers who resided in the palace included Alexander von Schleinitz (1862–1885) and August zu Eulenburg (1914–1918).
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