The Hakeburg is still a so-called lost place on the southwestern outskirts of Berlin.
The Neue Hakeburg is a large castle-like mansion in Kleinmachnow, a town south of Berlin. It is located on the Seeberg on the north side of Lake Machnow near the Kleinmachnow lock of the Teltow Canal and offers a view over the Bäketal nature reserve.
Due to financial problems, the building, including 44 hectares of land, was sold to the Reichspost in 1936, which converted it into the residence of Reichspostminister Wilhelm Ohnesorge in 1938 and used the site as a research and test center for various types of aircraft, especially flying wings, radio measuring systems, transmitters, control devices and broadband cables , general radio and television equipment. These projects were managed by the Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA) of the SS.
In the SBZ and later in the GDR, the castle served as a party university of the SED from 1948. Wolfgang Leonhard and Carola Stern.[1] Later, the Neue Hakeburg was temporarily the seat of the Joliot-Curie intelligentsia club and was then converted into a guest house of the SED. Statesmen such as Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat and Mikhail Gorbachev resided here.
Hotelbetrieb Hakeburg GmbH was founded in May 1990 after the peaceful revolution. As determined by the Independent Commission to Review the Assets of the Parties and Mass Organizations of the GDR (UKVP), he received a company loan of 50,000 Deutschmarks from the PDS in the course of their illegal asset transfers in 1990. The money had to be paid back later. After reunification, Deutsche Telekom became the owner of the property. The later owner ORCO Germany S.A. planned to use the Neue Hakeburg as a hotel, as well as to build a dormitory and an underground car park, which was laid down in the municipal development plan approved in 2010. Since no reputable hotel operator could be found, a new use has been sought since 2012 by installing 16 condominiums.
Source: Wikipedia