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Location: Hamburg, Germany

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Korngiebel

August 31, 2017

The press house is now called the Helmut Schmidt House.
The house at Speersort 1 has a new name.

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Siegfried LG

January 27, 2018

Next to the former Domplatz, where Domstrasse and Speersort meet, is the Helmut-Schmidt-Haus (press house until January 7, 2016), in which several publishing houses used to work. Today “Die Zeit” still has its editorial office there. It was built in 1938 based on a design by Rudolf Klophaus for the National Socialist Hamburger Tageblatt. The company emblem, a Hanseatic cog by Richard Kuöhl, can be found - now without a swastika - on Curienstrasse.

In contrast to the other clinker brick buildings, it has individual elements made of shell limestone, especially in the Speersort/Steinstrasse arcades. The original hipped roof was replaced by a staggered floor after bomb damage. After the founding of the Federal Republic, Der Spiegel from 1952 to 1969 and Stern, among others, had their editorial offices here.

Adjacent to the west was the classicist building of the old Johanneum, which was built in 1838/40 based on designs by Carl Ludwig Wimmel. This neighborhood inevitably influenced the design language and cites the arched arcades of the original Johanneum, which served as the building for the Commerzbibliothek and the later State Library after the school moved out.

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The building is inextricably linked to the magazine “Die Zeit” and Helmuth Schmidt. He had a study on the sixth floor until his death.

"He then sat behind the desk in his study on the 6th floor of the ZEIT building, surrounded by cigarette smoke, windows and doors closed, no eye for the Elbphilharmonie, the Bismarck monument and Michel, the wonderful Hamburg panorama that the view from his Office goes. Helmut Schmidt asked. He drank coffee with a lot of sugar and preferably a shot of Baileys. He didn't need much more between breakfast and dinner.
It's true, what hardly any outsider would believe: Until shortly before his death, Helmut Schmidt came to the office three, often four, times a week. On Friday afternoon, at twelve o'clock sharp, he appeared at the political department conference, usually first. And it was almost always him who opened the conversation. "I have a question."

Source:
zeit.de/politik/2015-11/helmut-schmidt-zeit-verlag

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Natascha

May 14, 2018

From the beginning of July 1939, the Hamburger Tageblatt had its headquarters in the newly built press house at Speersort. The press house was designed specifically for the Hamburger Tageblatt by Rudolf Klophaus and built in 1938. At the laying of the foundation stone on October 22, 1938, thousands of spectators were present alongside local Nazi celebrities and press representatives. The Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels also took part in the laying of the foundation stone and gave a speech in this context: “The press is the intellectual weapon in the fight for Germany’s global reputation.”

There are reliefs on the simple six-story clinker brick building, including: that of the Tageblattkogge on the side facing Curienstrasse and arcades on the west side. During the Second World War in 1942 and 1943, the upper floors of the building were heavily bombed and burned out following Allied air raids. Today the press house (Helmut Schmidt House since January 2016) is, among other things, Headquarters of the newspaper Die Zeit.

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1. Port of Hamburg – View of the Elbphilharmonie loop from Lübecker Straße

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3. Speicherstadt Hamburg – Speicherstadt loop from Sternschanze (Messe)

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