page_title: Palace of the Reich President
section_title: Palace plan
hierarchical_section_title: Palace of the Reich President / Palace plan
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Das Reichspräsidenten-Palais fertiggestellt! Blick in das Arbeitszimmer des Reichpräsidenten, welches mit größter Einfachheit und schlichter Würde eingerichtet ist.
context_page_description: The Reich President's Palace was from 1919 to 1934 an official residence of the President of the Reich and the official seat of the German head of state.
  The palace was located at Wilhelmstrasse No. 73 in Berlin and housed the Office of the Reich President, which regulated all matters related to the function of the Reich President as a state institution. Private apartments of the President and some of his employees where in Palace as well as various representation and reception rooms.
context_section_description: The building of the actual palace consisted of three wings. In addition, there were some outbuildings such as a garage for the President's vehicle fleet, a rear building and various small garden houses, greenhouses and a chicken coop.
  On the forecourt at the front of the palace was a so-called “courtyard” covered with gravel, on which the Reich President received foreign ambassadors and heads of state as well as other distinguished guests. In later years it was common for a twenty-member honorary formation of the Reichswehr to take a stand on the courtyard whenever the President entered or left his office. In the courtyard there was a fountain decorated with allegorical figures, behind which a wide glass staircase led to the entrance to the palace.
  In addition to the office of the President in the left wing of the building (“Chancellery”) and the representative rooms for official occasions (receptions, banquets, dance evenings, etc.) in the central part, the residence comprised various private accommodations. While the president and the  chief of the office of the Reich President  as the highest-ranking house residents each had their own spacious apartments -; the office manager had twenty-six rooms at his right wing ("Meissner wing") at his disposal; - other house residents had to be at their disposal to make do with smaller apartments. The caretaker of the building (usually a man named Horst Tappe) lived in an apartment on the top floor, while the chauffeur of the head of state (Heinrich Demant) lived in the rooms above the former imperial stables that had been converted into a garage for the vehicle fleet.
  The building was surrounded by a large park, which included walking paths, lawns and flower beds as well as some vegetable beds hidden behind hedges. In 1925 the street along the garden gate was named after the late Reich President who had just died at " Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse".
caption: President's Office
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