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Der Bendlerblock the Bendler Block Der Bendlerblock The Bendler Block < Der Eingang zum Bendlerblock < Nach dem Scheitern des Umsturzversuchs: um 1940 Angehörige der Waffen-SS und Soldaten der Wehrmacht am 21. Juli im Innenhof des Bendlerblocks The entrance to the Bendler Block, around 1940 > After the failure oft he attemp coup: Waffen-SS men and Wehracht soldiers in the Bendler Block courtyard, July 21, 1944. > Zwischen 1911 und 1914 entsteht im Tiergartenviertel ein geräumiger Komplex für das Reichsmarineamt. Das Hauptgebäude liegt am Landwehrkanal, der Ost- A large complex was built for the Reich Naval Office in flügel an der Bendlerstraße 14, der heutigen Stauffen- the Tiergarten district between 1911 and 1914. The main bergstraße. Die Bendlerstraße war bereits 1837 von dem building was on the Landwehr Canal and the eastern Ratsmaurermeister Johann Christoph Bendler angelegt wing on Bendlerstraße 14, now Stauffenbergstraße. und nach ihm benannt worden. Nach dem Ersten Bendlerstraße had been built by the municipal master Weltkrieg findet neben der Marineleitung hier auch die builder Johann Christoph Bendler in 1837 and named neu geschaffene Reichswehrführung Platz. In dieser after him. After World War I, the navy and the newly Zeit bürgert sich die inoffizielle Bezeichnung „Bendler- created Reichswehr both had their administrative block“ für das deutsche militärische Führungszentrum headquarters here. During this time the “Bendler Block” ein. Auf den 1926 erworbenen Nachbargrundstücken became established as the unofficial name for the in der Bendlerstraße 10-13 entsteht bis 1938 durch German military leadership center. The neighboring Neubau und Erweiterung der Bendlerblock in seiner plots on Bendlerstraße 10 – 13 were bought in 1926, and heutigen Form. the Bendler Block in its current form was built and extended up to 1938. Nach 1933 ist der Bendlerblock Sitz des Allgemeinen Heeresamtes des Oberkommandos des Heeres, des After 1933, the Bendler Block was the headquarters of Befehlshabers des Ersatzheeres und Chefs der Heeres- the General Army Office in the Army High Command, rüstung, von Teilen der Seekriegsleitung und weiterer of the commander of the Reserve Army and chief of militärischer Dienststellen. Bereits am 3. Februar 1933 army equipment, of parts of the Navy High Command, kündigt Adolf Hitler hier der Reichswehrführung and of other military offices. As early as February 3, die „Eroberung neuen Lebensraumes im Osten“ an. 1933, Adolf Hitler announced here, to the leaders of the Vor allem aber ist der Bendlerblock das Zentrum des Reichswehr, that he would “conquer new living space Umsturzversuches gegen das nationalsozialistische in the East.” Above all, however, the Bendler Block was Regime am 20. Juli 1944. the center of the attempted coup against the National Socialist regime on July 20, 1944. Seit den 1950er Jahren nutzen überwiegend Behörden des Bundes und des Landes Berlin sowie die Gedenk- Since the 1950s, the Bendler Block has housed mainly stätte Deutscher Widerstand den Bendlerblock. federal and state administrative bodies and the German Seit 1993 dient der größte Teil des Bendlerblocks dem Resistance Memorial Center. In 1993, most of the Bundesministerium der Verteidigung als zweiter Bendler Block became the second office complex of Dienstsitz. the Federal Ministry of Defence. Seit dem 20. Juli 1952 findet im heutigen Ehrenhof der Since July 20, 1952, a memorial ceremony has been Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand jedes Jahr eine held every year in what is now the commemorative Gedenkfeier zur Erinnerung an den Widerstand gegen courtyard of the German Resistance Memorial Center, den Nationalsozialismus statt. Am 20. Juli 1953 wird in remembrance of the resistance against National das von Richard Scheibe geschaffene Denkmal Socialism. Richard Scheibe´s memorial statue of the des Mannes mit gefesselten Händen enthüllt. young man with the hands tied was unveiled on 1955 wird die Bendlerstraße in Stauffenbergstraße July 20,1953. Bendlerstraße was renamed Stauffen- umbenannt. 1980 erhält der Ehrenhof nach einem bergstraße in 1955. The commemorative courtyard in Entwurf von Erich Reusch seine heutige Gestalt. its present form was designed by Erich Reusch in 1980. 1968 informiert erstmals eine kleine Ausstellung über A first small exhibition on the military resistance was den militärischen Widerstand. Seit 1989 dokumentiert installed in 1968. Since 1989, the German Resistance die Dauerausstellung der Gedenkstätte Deutscher Memorial Center´s permanent exhibition has been Widerstand als zentraler Ort der Erinnerung in der a central site of remembrance in Germany, providing Bundesrepublik Deutschland umfassend die Motive, extensive documentation of the motives, aims, Ziele und Formen des Kampfes gegen die national- and forms of the fight against the National Socialist sozialistische Diktatur. dictatorship. .
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