The State Council Building is a building in the former East Berlin that hosted the State Council, the collective head of state of the German Democratic Republic, from 1964 to 1990. The building, which lies to the south of the Schloßplatz, was constructed from 1962 to 1964 by the architects Roland Korn and Hans-Erich Bogatzky. It incorporates in it…
The State Council Building is a building in the former East Berlin that hosted the State Council, the collective head of state of the German Democratic Republic, from 1964 to 1990. The building, which lies to the south of the Schloßplatz, was constructed from 1962 to 1964 by the architects Roland Korn and Hans-Erich Bogatzky. It incorporates in its asymmetrical facade the Karl-Liebknecht-Portal, a fraction of the facade of the former Berlin Palace comprising the balcony from which Karl Liebknecht proclaimed a "Free Socialist Republic of Germany" on 9 November 1918, on the eve of the end of World War I, two hours after Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the "Republic of Germany" from a window of the Reichstag building.
Architectural style: Modernist
Location: Berlin, (Mitte), Germany
Completed: 1964
Status: Occupied by the European School of Management and Technology (ESMT Berlin)
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