17/5001 – The Honecker Bunker

 bunker, closed, underground facility

The bunker (project number 17/5001) was built between 1978 and 1983 not far from the village of Prenden in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) to serve as the command centre for the “National Defence Council (NDC)” - Nationaler Verteidigungsrat (NVR). In times of crisis the NDC members would have sought refuge here to exercise control over those elements of the East German armed forces (NVA) not under Soviet command in the Warsaw Pact’s joint forces. From 1971 onwards, Walter Ulbricht’s successor as chairman on the NDC was Erich Honecker External link. Since he would have been the most important person in the bunker, it has acquired the name of “Honecker’s bunker”. When built, it was considered to be the Warsaw Pact’s best equipped and constructed bunker outside of the Soviet Union.

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