Hofbrauhaus beer hall munich hitler

In the days, when a young Adolf Hitler became a member of DAP in mid-September 1919, the party had been doing beer hall politics without a party office. On October 31, 1921, they established a new headquarters only a few streets to the South of the initial location.

To get there take either the U-Bahn or the S-Bahn to the Marienplatz stop. 

From Marienplatz, it is an easy 4 minute walk.

HOFBRAUHAUS VISITOR INFORMATION 

BEER HALL HOURS The beer hall is open 365 days a year from 9am-midnight.
KITCHEN HOURS The kitchen is open from 9am-11:30pm (only a restricted snack menu is  available later in the afternoon).
ADDRESS Platzl 9, 80331 München, Germany
DRINKING AGE The minimum drinking age in Gemany is 18 years old. 
RESERVATIONS are not accepted in the main beer hall or the beer garden.

Just at this small room with a separate entrance from the Sterneckstrasse alley, the party committee had formed (starting from January 1920)  the core of the future values of the Nazi movement and its programmer, which would fall into oblivion only as of the fall of the Third Reich years later. It was this very beer house and its spacious summer garden granted young Hitler a chance to find clients for his paintings between the tables with glasses of beer.

Since 1957, for the first time in four centuries, the location has not served as a beer house. The majority of these formations settled in public places, including the traditionally spacious halls of the Munich beer houses. The rent was fifty marks; in co-signing the lease Hitler again gave his occupation as “painter.” A table and a few borrowed chairs were placed in the room, a telephone installed, and a safe obtained for the membership cards and the party treasury.

JOACHIM FEST (HITLER, 1973)

Regardless of the accession for Hitler to use the more recognized beer halls of Munich as a platform for his speeches, the future German fuhrer used to address the audience in Sterneckerbrau.

Hitler’s admiration of Munich in the years 1913-1914 in his own words that the streets of the city were now in the possession of the Nazi movements, as well as the hearts and minds of its people. Within the next few weeks, Hitler himself distributed leaflets in public places in Munich, thus inviting people to attend the upcoming party meeting.

In a wider sense of the geographical changes, the entire city district once attributed to Burgerbraukeller was reshaped to be occupied with several modern buildings, including the Hilton hotel. To the horror of the citizens, the main hall of Lowenbraukeller descended up and one of the most postcard-like buildings was now in ruins.

HOFBRAUKELLER

Things were once going so brilliantly for the brewery industry, that the end of the XVIII century encapsulated a new era of expanding the undisputed golden goose to a never-seen extent, with Staatliches Hofbräuhaus as an absolute leader among the producers.

Another social layer of disgruntled masses was shaped by millions of veterans of the now-gone Kaiser’s army. Do not feel pressured to tip above your comfort level, especially if the service is lackluster. Three of five were intimately related to the so-called ‘Beer Hall Putsch’, the failed Nazi revolution of 1923. In the aftermath of the lost war and bitterness of rankled defeat, as the ever-to-be knew Alan Bullock wrote, the ‘Frontkamfers’ (combat veterans) now lived in a world of self-unimportance and disgrace.

In the late hours of November 8, 1923, one of the groups of stormtroopers was rallying up inside the Torbrau hotel, just across the street. At Hofbrauhaus, you seat yourself. 

Also most of the tables are family style seating. On February 27, 1925, it was Friday, Hitler drew an audience of 4000 attendees within the main hall of Burgerbraukeller as his first public speech after the repeal of a ban, which had been given eleven days before.

The party cards were to be handwritten and then amateurishly printed with a typing machine. It was here where Apr. 2000 of the nazi stormtroopers and their supporters gathered on the eve of November 8, led by Ernst Rohm, waiting for a call from Hitler from Burgerbraukeller. But for all that, these very five beer halls in Munich were destined to play a role in the rise of national socialism, Hitler’s rise to definite power in Germany, and later in occupied Europe.

When he was ten steps away from Kahr, he got up on a chair and fired a shot into the ceiling to quiet the tumult. In 1894 the initial architectural complex of buildings was accompanied by an added tower and electricity (a white crow at that time) in another year. Leave a comment below! 

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