Stuhlerbau Ex-Guards Regiment Barracks now housing art collections, previously also used as a training school for the Gestapo
Kaserne der Garde du Corps (ehem.) Former Guards' Regiment Barracks. Currently: Sharf-Gerstenberg (left), Bergruen Gallery, (right). Dates: 1851-1859 Architect: Stüler, Friedrich August Used as a barracks until 1918, then taken over by the Security Police, under the leadership of Freikorps Leader Walthes Stennes, a magnet for the radical right disbanded in 1920. The building on to the right of this image, then became a Police Training School and was renamed the Führerschule der Sicherheitspolizei in 1937, under an SS leader. According to the official Berlin website, berlin(dot)de - Trainees participated in Terror in their own country and following the outbreak of war, the repression and mass murder of civilians in the occupied countries of Europe. Klaus Barbie, Gestapo-Chef of Lyon, 'the Butcher of Lyon' was one. Numerous trainees followed post-war careers in the Bundeskriminalant, (BKA - West German Republic Criminal Police Service) and the founding generation became known as 'Charlottenburger' including Paul Dickopf, class of 1938/39, who from 1965 bis 1971 was President of the BKA. The left hand building housed Berlin's world famous Eqyptian Collection for many years following WW2. Both buildings now house art galleries.
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