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The owner of this website as per section 5 of the German Telemedia Act (TMG) and responsible for the content as per section 55 para. 2 of the Interstate Broadcasting Agreement (RStV) is: Stiftung…

Palais Schaumburg

Palais SchaumburgOfficial seat of the German Federal Chancellery 1949–1976 From 1949 to 1976, Bonn’s Palais Schaumburg housed the Chancellery of the Federal Republic of Germany, which served…

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Start the Path of German Democracy Walking the Path of German Democracy On the Path of German Democracy, you can take an exciting and informative tour of the key milestones of the history of the…

Privacy Policy

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Plenarsaal Wasserwerk

"Wasserwerk" ChamberParliamentary chamber of the German Bundestag 1986–1992 The Bundestag (Lower House of Parliament) met from September 1986 to October 1992 in the converted pump house of an…

Gästehaus Petersberg

Grandhotel PetersbergOfficial government guest house since 1954 The Allied High Commissioners were headquartered in this luxury hotel on Mt. Petersberg from 1949 to 1952. Since 1954, the…

Historical Sites

Sites of German democracy German parliamentary democracy is inextricably bound up with 65 sites. Where have key democracy related decisions been made? Where is the everyday business of…

Bundesrat

BundesratUpper House of Parliament 1949–2000 It is through the Bundesrat that Germany’s federal states exercise the lion’s share of their legislative powers. The Bundesrat met in Bonn from…

About the Project

About the Project The Path of German Democracy is made up of sites in and around Bonn that count as milestones of the development of the Federal Republic of Germany, and where key decisions were…

Contact

Contact Contact The Path of German Democracy is a joint project of the Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Foundation and the city of Bonn.  If you have any questions or…

Dahlmannstraße

DahlmannstraßeThe Federal Republic of Germany’s first press mile Dahlmannstraße is a street name that at one time stood for the close relationship between media and politics in Bonn. During…

Langer Eugen

Langer EugenOffice tower for members of Parliament 1969–1999 The "Langer Eugen" office tower, which in 1969 was the tallest building in the federal capital of Bonn, housed the offices of…

Landesvertretung Baden-Württemberg

State Representation Office of the State of Baden-Württemberg1954–2000 In early 1952 the newly established State of Baden-Württemberg purchased a property at Welckerstraße 2, and constructed…

Landesvertretung Bayern

State Representation Office of the Free State of Bavaria1955–1999 Architect Sep Ruf designed the State Representation Office of the Federal State of Bavaria at Schlegelstraße 1. The building…

Landesvertretung Berlin

State Representation Office of the State of Berlin1949–2000 The State Representation Office of Berlin has been housed in the Gründerzeit-style villa No. 6 on Joachimstraße, expanded by two…

Landesvertretung Brandenburg

State Representation Office of the State of Brandenburg1991–2000 State Representation Office of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate 1952–1990 In 1952, the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate…

Landesvertretung Bremen

State Representation Office of the State of Bremen1949–1999 In September 1949, the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen became the first federal state to acquire a plot of land in Bonn, where it…

Landesvertretung Hamburg

State Representation Office of the State of Hamburg1950–2000 The State Representation Office of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg was housed in a 1907 semi-detached villa designed by the…

Landesvertretung Hessen

State Representation Office of the State of Hesse1949–2000 In 1949, the Federal State of Hesse acquired the building at Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 8, where its State Representation Office was…

Landesvertretung Niedersachsen

State Representation Office of the State of Lower Saxony 1990–2000 In 1990 Gerhard Schröder, at the time Minister President of Lower Saxony, inaugurated the new Federal State of Lower Saxony…

Landesvertretung Nordrhein-Westfalen

State Representation Office of North Rhine-Westphalia1954–2000 In 1952, the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia acquired a site on Dahlmannstraße. Two years later its State Representation…

Landesvertretung Rheinland-Pfalz

State Representation Office of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate1990–2000 The Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate State Representation Office was initially housed on Schedestraße. During the…

Landesvertretung Sachsen-Anhalt

State Representation Office of the State of Saxony-Anhalt 1991–2000State Representation Office of the State of Lower Saxony 1952–1990 In 1991, Saxony Anhalt took over the building, where its…

Landesvertretung Saarland

State Representation Office of the State of Saarland1969–1999 In 1969, the Federal State of Saarland State Representation Office moved into the former residence of prominent Bonn architect…

Landesvertretung Schleswig-Holstein

State Representation Office of the State of Schleswig-Holstein1953–2000 In 1953, the Federal State of Schleswig-Holstein acquired a building on Kurt-Schumacher-Straße (the then…

Landesvertretung Thüringen

State Representation Office of the State of Thuringia1991–1999 In 1991, the Federal State of Thüringen moved its State Representation Office into a Gründerzeit-style villa on Simrockstraße…

Bundeshaus

Bundeshaus (Parliament Building)1949–1999 This house on the river Rhine, where on 7 September 1949 the Deutscher Bundestag (Lower House of Parliament) first convened, is the ideal venue for…

Bundeskanzleramt

Federal ChancelleryBundeskanzleramt 1976–1999 From 1976 to 1999 the Federal Chancellery was the official residence of Chancellors Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. The…

Bürobauten Tulpenfeld

Tulpenfeld office complexSince 1967 The Tulpenfeld office complex has housed federal ministry and MP offices, and has been the venue for press conferences at the federal level since 1967.…

Hofgarten

HofgartenVenue for mass rallies Located in front of the former Electoral Palace (which since 1818 has housed Bonn University) the Hofgarten has been the scene of several major political…

Konrad-Adenauer-Haus

Konrad-Adenauer-HausCDU party headquarters 1971–2000 The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was headquartered from 1971 to 2000 on the street known today as Friedrich-Ebert-Allee. The building…

Bundespressekonferenz

Federal Press ConferencePress meeting venue since 1967 On 15 September 1949, Konrad Adenauer was elected West Germany’s first Chancellor by a majority of just one vote in the parliamentary…

Willy-Brandt-Forum

Willy-Brandt-Forum Unkel1979–1992 The exhibition centres around the life and achievements of Willy Brandt. The Chancellor lived in Unkel from 1979 until 1992.The exhibition centres…

Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus

Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-HausKonrad Adenauer’s residence in Rhöndorf 1937–1969 In Rhöndorf, where Konrad Adenauer resided from 1937 until his death in 1967, the…

Stadthalle Bad Godesberg

Stadthalle Bad GodesbergSPD’s Godesberg Programme 1959 On 15 November 1959 in the town of Bad Godesberg’s conference and convention centre, a special Social Democratic Party (SPD) convention…

Abgeordneten-Wohnhäuser

Apartment complex for members of the Bundestag1960–1999 Members of the Deutscher Bundestag (Lower House of Parliament) divided their time between Bonn and the cities and towns in which their…

Beethovenhalle

BeethovenhalleFederal-President election venue 1974–1989 The inaugural meeting of the Federal Convention was held at the Bundeshaus in Bonn on 12 September 1949. For the four ensuing…

Altes Stadthaus

Altes StadthausSeat of the Federal Ministry of All-German Affairs 1949–1957 The Federal Ministry of All-German Affairs symbolises West Germany’s opposition to the division of Germany…

Botschafterresidenz Ägypten

Egyptian ambassador’s residence1961–1999 This townhouse, designed in 1922 by Julius Rolffs, was the headquarters of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government from September…

Bundesministerium des Innern

Ministry of the Interiorsince 1949 In 1949, the Ministry of the Interior moved into a former police academy building. In 1969, a 12-storey structure was added, and since 1999 the Ministry has…

"Bundesgeschäftsstelle der „Grünen“

German Green Party/Alliance 90 headquarters 1995–1999 From 1995 until the seat of parliament and government was transferred to Berlin, the national headquarters of the German Green…

Haus Carstanjen

Haus CarstanjenHeadquarters of the Federal Ministry of Marshall Plan Affairs 1950–1957 With the "European Recovery Program" (1948–1952), the US were helping rebuild a Europe devastated by…

Museum Koenig

Museum KoenigOpening ceremony of the Parliamentary Council 1948–1957 On 1 September 1948, the opening ceremony for the Parliamentary Council was held at Zoologisches Museum Alexander Koenig –…

Sowjetische Botschaft

Soviet Embassy1975–1992 The Federal Republic’s first president initially resided in a building in the Viktorshöhe part of Bonn-Bad Godesberg. The Soviet Embassy took over the building in 1975…

Deichmannsaue

DeichmannsaueUS High Commissioner’s headquarters and US Embassy 1950–2000 Deichmannsaue Castle and the buildings subsequently constructed adjacent to it in 1951 were from 1950 to 1955 the…

Reutersiedlung

ReutersiedlungResidence for federal civil servants since 1949 The Reutersiedlung complex has provided housing for federal civil servants and members of parliament since the founding of the…

Deutscher Landkreistag

Deutscher LandkreistagHeadquarters 1957–2000 In 1957, the Deutscher Landkreistag moved into new quarters in close proximity to the federal government, Bundesrat (Upper House of Parliament)…

Rosenburg

RosenburgSeat of the Ministry of Justice 1950–1973 The Ministry of Justice was housed in Rosenburg Villa, near Venusberg, from 1950 to 1973. The personnel policies practised there are today…

Chinesische Botschaft

Embassy of the People’s Republic of China 1984–2001 Since 1972, the Federal Republic of Germany has maintained diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, whose first German…

Haus der Geschichte

Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland The Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Museum of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany) opened its doors in 1994.…