page_title: Bundespressekonferenz
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bundespressekonferenz / History
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Tulpenfeld 7 in Bonn-Gronau; seinerzeit bekannt als „Pressehaus“ (Sitz der Bundespressekonferenz 1967–1999), Bauzeit 1964–1967, Architekt Hanns Dustmann: Ansicht aus Süden English: Tulpenfeld 7 in Bonn-Gronau, formerly known as “Press House”, the seat of the Federal Press Conference 1967–1999: view from south
context_page_description: The Bundespressekonferenz is the name for the Federal Press Conference, a union of full-time journalists who report exclusively for German media and who report solely or predominantly from Berlin and Bonn. It is organized as an association to invite particular representatives of the federal government of germany, but also parties, associations or individuals of nationwide political importance to press conferences and to interview there, following the model of journalists in the Weimar Republic.
context_section_description: The earliest roots of today's Federal Press Conference are in the press conferences organized by the General Staff of the Imperial Army during the First World War, which held from 1915, the former stock market journalist and Major Georg Schweitzer. He had already been one of the founding members of the Imperial Press Ball. The "teaching of the people" corresponded to the then prevailing patriotic mood.
  After the abolition of the monarchy, the journalists working in Berlin of the leading German daily newspapers took the organization of press conferences into their own hands and invited politicians and government spokespersons as guests, instead of the other way around.
  After the Second World War, the form of the press conferences of the Weimar Republic was reopened. In 1947 the state press conference in Hanover and in 1948 the Frankfurt press conference at the Economic Council were created at first. It broke up again with the founding of the Federal Republic at the end of 1949 and is regarded as a direct forerunner of the Bundespressekonferenz in Bonn. Many of their founding members moved from the Frankfurt press conference to Bonn, after the Federal Government and Parliament had constituted there in 1949.
  On 15 September 1949, the day of the first Chancellor's election, a group of newspaper correspondents called by notice in Bonn's Federal Parliament "all journalists accredited to the Federal Parliament for the establishment of a federal press conference" on. Four days later, the inaugural meeting took place, but officially the BPK was constituted only on 11 October 1949 with the election of a managing committee.
  At the first Federal Press Conference in its own responsibility, which took place in the plenary hall of the Federal Council on 17 or 18 October 1949, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard answered the questions of the member journalists. Later, the press conferences usually took place in the hall of the Defense Committee.
  Immediately after the founding of the BPK in 1949, certain members of the executive board were entrusted with one of the most urgent organizational tasks of the postwar period: the procurement of housing for the Bonn journalists. At that time, a quota of 10% for the local members in the occupation of social housing could be enforced, which were originally intended only for employees of the Bundestag. Therefore, a number of journalists also lived in the Reutersiedlung. After further subsidies (such as the assistance of survivors) were added, the Social Fund Federal Press Conference was launched.
  After the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, there was a change to the statutes in the autumn to exclude all East German correspondents from the BPK. It remained in the more than 40-year history of the Bonn Republic, the only exclusion against accredited journalists. It existed for almost 10 years, until on 8 February 1971, the "Exclusion Paragraph" for East German journalists was removed from the statute and three years later, the required admission to the Foreign Press Association was made possible.
  From October 1967, the federal press conference with its hall was located in the so-called "Pressehaus" in the government District in Bonn. Their identifying mark was a meter-high, squarish rosewood wall.
  After the fall of the Berlin Wall, BPK supported the founding of the "Press Conference Capital Berlin" in the spring of 1990, which became the "Berlin branch of the BPK" after German unity.
  With the relocation of government and parliament in 1999, BPK also relocated its headquarters to Berlin. The room in which the Federal Press Conference takes place, as well as the offices of the club employees, are rented by Allianz (alliance), which owns the building. Even after moving to Berlin, however, the Federal Press Conference is still represented with a branch office in the Bonn federal district.
  In the final speech of the then deputy spokeswoman Charima Reinhardt on 4 August 1999 in the government District in Bonn, the number of press conferences held there was stated a
caption: House of the Bundespresskonferenz in Bonn
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