Haus des Deutschen VerkehrsbundsBruno Taut
Exterior · Berlin, Germany · 1927
Photo: Jörg Zägel · 2009-07-07 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 2858×2060
The former office building of the German Traffic Union (the union of tranport workers) on Engeldamm, corner of Michaelkirchplatz in Berlin-Mitte, built 1927 to 1932 by architect Max Taut who used an earlier design by his brother Bruno Taut. The six-story skeleton structure of reinforced concrete was one of several union buildings in Berlin Max Taut constructed in the modern architectural style. After the Nazis expropriated the General Federation of German Trade Unions in 1933, the building was used by the German Labor Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) for the Gau Office of its "Kraft durch Freude"