With the opening of the esmt campus in 2006, the European School of Management and Technology (esmt) has now its head office in the heart of Berlin on Schlossplatz 1 inside the former GDR state council building.

The esmt European School of Management and Technology was founded in 2002, by 25 leading German companies and associations as an international management-university with a European focus. 30 participants from 15 countries enrolled for the first MBA (Master of Business Administration) course.

Address:
esmt campus
Schlossplatz 1
10178 Berlin

Internet: www.esmt.org

Transport Links:
S5, S7, S75, S9 Alexanderplatz
U2, U5, U8
M4, M5, M6
100, 200, 148, TXL

+49 (0)30 21231 0
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35 million Euros were put into the Business-College's rebuilding at the prominent complex at the Schloßplatz. It is being redeveloped and rebuild.

The building has been under monumental protection since 1903.

Many things will be preserved at this monumental protected house: Rooms that have been used for receptions, honouring ceremonies and meetings at DDR times will became lecture halls for students. The rooms will be worked on and have new functions: The former banquet hall will be transformed into two lecture halls, the formal dinner hall into an auditorium for 360 people. The library will move into the former ambassador reception room. The canteen becomes a restaurant and the cinema hall on the second floor will be used in future for lectures.

The office of the former head of state Erich Honecker was transformed into a kind of lounge. On the ground floor is a bookshop, a restaurant and a café, which are open to the public.

The whole sanitary and heating technique has been renewed, the facade windows exchanged and the sandstone facade and the integrated portal of the city palace was cleaned.

A speciality in the cellar from the GDR times has been walled-up: The bunker facility for the GDR leadership. There were recreation rooms, toilets, bedrooms and room for Erich Honecker, which is papered with red velour wallpaper. One wall has an around one metre big hole. Behind it runs a 30 metre long tunnel that ends in the courtyard of the building.