Federal Chancellery (Berlin)
| Federal Chancellery complex | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Government seat |
| Address | 1 Willi Brandt Avenue Tiergarten |
| Town or city | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52°31′12″N 13°22′10″E / 52.52000°N 13.36944°ECoordinates: 52°31′12″N 13°22′10″E / 52.52000°N 13.36944°E |
| Current tenants |
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany |
| Construction started | February 4, 1997 |
| Completed | 2001 |
| Height | 36 m |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 8 |
| Floor area | 64,413m² |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank |
The Federal Chancellery (German: Bundeskanzleramt) in Berlin is the official seat and residence of the Chancellor of Germany as well as his executive office, the German Chancellery. As part of the move of the German Federal Government from Bonn to Berlin, the office moved into the new building planned by the architects Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank. The building is part of the "Band of the Federal" called assembly in Spreebogen, Willy-Brandt-Straße 1, 10557 Berlin.
When the North German Confederation became the German Empire in 1871, the Bundeskanzleramt was renamed to Reichskanzleramt. It originally had its seat in the Radziwiłł Palace (also known as Reichskanzlerpalais), originally built by Prince Antoni Radziwiłł on Wilhelmstraße 77 in Berlin. More and more imperial offices were separated from the Reichskanzleramt, e.g. the Reichsjustizamt (Office for National Justice) in 1877. What remained of the Reichskanzleramt became in 1879 the Reichsamt des Innern (the home office).
In 1878 Imperial Chancellor Bismarck created a new office for the chancellor's affairs, the Reichskanzlei. It kept its name over the years, also in the republic since 1919. In 1938–39, the building (New Imperial Chancellery), designed by Albert Speer, was built; its main entrance was located at Voßstraße 6, while the building occupied the entire northern side of the street. It was damaged during World War II and later demolished by Soviet occupation forces.
A couple of years after the war, in 1949 the Federal Republic was created. The capital became Bonn. Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer used the Museum Koenig for the first two months and then moved the Bundeskanzleramt into Palais Schaumburg until a new Chancellery building was completed in 1976. The then new West German Chancellery building was a black structure completed in the International Style, in an unassuming example of modernism. A separate building served as private residence of the Chancellor and his family 1964-1999.
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