Villa von Kleist
Villa von Kleist stands in Potsdam’s Berliner Vorstadt as a historic building shaped by several architectural phases. Its earliest form appeared around 1824 for Colonel Carl von Malachowski, commander of the Leib-Garde-Husaren-Regiment. The architect remains unknown, although the design shows influences associated with Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Carl Hampel from the War Ministry’s Military Economy Department carried the plans into reality.
The original single-storey house had a basement, a gable roof and two shallow corner projections. Pilasters framed its doors and windows, while two coach houses with steep gable roofs occupied the rear courtyard. A central projection appeared in 1894, then Ewald Freiherr von Kleist commissioned Otto Rehnig to remodel the property in 1910. Their changes brought a polygonal bay window, a mansard hipped roof, side gables and a rear stair tower.
Ownership passed to Otto Wrede in 1924, followed by banking institutions and the city of Potsdam. From 1990 to 1997, the Deutsche Bundesbank used the building as its Potsdam branch. Renovation between 1998 and 2000 converted it into a seminar building for the bank. Since 2009, the Brandenburg-owned property has housed the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, founded in Potsdam.
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