Campus History and Architecture
Schöneberg Campus
Schöneberg Campus, with around 4000 students, is the central campus of the Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL). The campus comprises five buildings, all in the immediate vicinity of the Badensche Straße main building.
After Haus A had been extensively refurbished, the University Management and the central administration relocated there in autumn 2010. The building, designed by Kurt Bornemann, dates from 1938 to 39 and, as the Haus der deutschen Brauwirtschaft, originally housed the German brewing industry's industrial association. In the 1980s, the building was taken over by the local authority, first for the Schöneberg housing office and later for the Tempelhof-Schöneberg social security office. In 2006, the use of the building passed to the University. Haus A is a listed building and the entry area with its staircase and the two meeting rooms on the second floor are of particular architectural interest.
From 1971, Haus B in Badensche Straße 50–51 housed the then newly-founded Berlin School of Economics (BSE), one of the Universities that later merged to form the present BSEL. Haus B dates from 1939 and was designed by Arthur Vogdt as an administration building. After being badly damaged in the Second World War, the building was restored in the 1950s and housed the Hochschule for Politik. Later, this was the location of the Hochschulinstitut für Wirtschaftskunde and the Höheren Wirtschafsfachschule, which became the Wirtschaftsakademie Berlin in 1965 and subsequently the Berlin School of Economics (BSE). In 2005 to 2006, an extra floor was added to Haus B, finally restoring its original five-storey design. Given the constantly growing numbers of students, this also significantly increased the rooms available to the University.
The campus also includes Haus C, an annex dating from the 1970s, and two buildings in Babelsberger Straße.
Friedrichshain Campus
The main Friedrichshain Campus occupies the historic Knorr Bremse AG administrative and production buildings at Neue Bahnhofstraße 9–17 in a traditional industrial area near the Ostkreuz S-Bahn (city railway) station. Knorr Bremse AG gave up its production centre in Neue Bahnhofstraße in 1993.
In 1998, the Berufsakademie Berlin, which specialised in company-linked courses, moved into two floors of the building together with its administration and support facilities, including a library and a computer centre. Until the end of 2010, the building housed the present Faculty of Company-Linked Programmes with around 1800 students. From 2011, a number of faculties will use the Friedrichshain Campus rooms for lectures and seminars.
The building dates from 1913 to 16 and was constructed by Alfred Grenander, who later gained an international reputation for his designs of many of Berlin's landmark underground stations. In the 1920s and 50s, extensions and alterations created an industrial complex with a surface area of over 24000m². Today, the complex also includes parts under heritage conservation orders.
Lichtenberg Campus
The BSEL's Lichtenberg Campus comprises three buildings on the education and administration complex in Friedrichsfelde (BVZ). This complex dates from 1984 to 85 and was built as the head offices of the GDR Ministry of State Security (MfS) Berlin district administration. In 1992, conversion work began to create a modern administration centre. A new auditorium complex (dubbed the "Fischbauch") was built for the then FHVR Berlin, a university of applied sciences for administration and law. In 1994, after the two-year construction period was over, the FHVR Berlin relocated to Lichtenberg from its original premises in the Ku’damm Karree in City West.
In October 2007, as part of the run up to the 2009 merger of the FHVR Berlin with the Berlin School of Economics (BSE) to form the Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL), the Wholesale and Retail Merchandising degree course in the Faculty of Company-Linked Programmes relocated to the Lichtenberg Campus. After refurbishment and conversion work on Haus 5 is completed in late 2010, the entire Faculty of Company-Linked Programmes will be relocating to the campus. From 2011, the Lichtenberg Campus will provide modern teaching and learning facilities for around 4000 students.
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