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The Grade II-listed building began life in the late s as large department store which was later sold to the Reich Youth Leadership. It served as the organisation’s headquarters during the Second World War. Today it is part of the private members&#; group, Soho House, and is both a hotel and event space.

History of Soho House Berlin

In two local entrepreneurs Hermann Golluber and Hugo Halle, decided to turn their small watch company, Jonass, into Berlin&#;s first large department store, known as &#;Kaufhaus Jonass&#;, which also offered credit to customers for the first time too. Designed by the architects Georg Bauer and Siegfried Friedlander, the building followed a new architecture style that put emphasis on a more practical and useful design ethos. When the National Socialist Party came to power in Germany the store&#;s Jewish owners were forced out and the new owners rented the building to Hitler’s Reich Youth Leadership, who used it for their headquarters during World War Two until

When East Berlin fell into control of the Soviet Union, the building became home to the Communist Party’s Central Committee (the SED), who ran the new socialist state from its offices. The SE