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4 unusual facts about Borsig Palace


Borsig Palace

It was then integrated into the New Reich Chancellery by Albert Speer in 1938.

Statues of Archimedes, Leonardo da Vinci, James Watt, George Stephenson and Karl Friedrich Schinkel were positioned in niches on the upper floor to symbolize technological progress.

The very next day, Hitler ordered Albert Speer to rebuild the Borsig Palace into offices for the new SA leadership.

Albert Borsig (1829–1878), industrialist and son of Borsig Lokomotiv-Werke founder August Borsig, hired Berlin's best architects and artists for his new home.



see also

Herbert von Bose

In his memoirs Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer relates how he was ordered to rebuild the Borsig Palace and transfer the Sturmabteilung (SA) leadership in and have Papen's staff out within twenty-four hours.