Overview
- Investors from the Jahr family plan to overbuild the Voßstraße site with a development reported to include 66 luxury apartments while keeping only a documentary record of the bunker.
- The Verein Berliner Unterwelten has publicly offered to convert the roughly 1,200–1,243 sqm surviving Große Bunker into an information, learning and documentation site and says it can finance the restoration itself.
- Berlin’s Landesdenkmalamt calls the underground remains the last bauzeitliche remnant of the Neue Reichskanzlei and of high historical and scientific value, but a senatorial instruction has so far prevented formal monument listing.
- Building Senator Christian Gaebler opposes full preservation, arguing a public museum could be used as a pilgrimage site by right‑wing extremists, while preservation advocates propose a historians’ advisory board and controlled access to guard against misuse.
- Technical factors matter to the dispute because the bunker has very thick walls and ceilings that can complicate demolition or overbuilding, and the outcome will affect how Berlin treats visible traces of its Nazi government quarter.