Haus 12
In Potsdam you will find Haus 12, built between 1906 and 1912 as a school for military cadets. Kaiser Wilhelm II inaugurated the finished building in 1910. The architect Robert Klingelhöffer later remodelled the neoclassical design in the neobaroque style.
In its early years the school mirrored the military importance of the area around it. The Versailles Treaty dissolved Germany's cadet institutions, and in 1920 the building became a state educational institution with a civilian purpose. During the Nazi era it served as a National Political Institute of Education that trained students for leadership in a militarized society. Air raids damaged it in 1945, and after the war restoration followed while various government bodies took the building over.
Since 1992 it has housed the office of the Minister-President of Brandenburg. Where cadets once studied under the Kaiser, the state government now goes about its work.
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