Polizeipräsidium
Polizeipräsidium stands in Düsseldorf as a police headquarters and architectural landmark on the site of a former hussar barracks. Alexander Schäfer and A. Hein designed its modern and neoclassical forms, which include elements associated with National Socialist architecture.
The Prussian Ministry of the Interior established the headquarters in 1926, while construction of the present building began with its cornerstone in 1929. Completed in the winter of 1933 to 1934, it later became a site of interrogations, mass arrests, political murders and deportations of Jewish citizens, including the 1941 deportation to Riga. After the Second World War, state jurisdiction returned in 1953, and the building now serves policing in Düsseldorf and on surrounding motorways.
A memorial room and the permanent exhibition Transparency and Shadows examine the police’s roles under democratic and dictatorial regimes. Modernisation by Düsseldorf firm HPP adds new structures while preserving the building’s historical significance.
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