# Villa Goldschmidt

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Villa Goldschmidt stands in Potsdam’s Babelsberg district as an architectural heritage monument with a lakeside façade. Ende & Böckmann built the villa in 1881 for Adolph L’Arronge, a writer and theatre director.

Jakob Goldschmidt acquired the property in 1921 and commissioned Alfred Breslauer and Paul Salinger to carry out extensive renovations. A substantial art collection once occupied the rooms, including a late work by Claude Monet. In 1938, the building became a Reichsführerschule, a Nazi training school, and its appearance changed significantly. Decorative stucco disappeared, while a central risalit rose on the lakeside façade.

Soviet soldiers occupied the villa in 1945, and the GDR later used it for state-law education and customs training. The Goldschmidt family recovered ownership after German reunification, before private investors acquired the property. Its changing form still shows how a lakeside villa moved through private, political and institutional histories.

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