The Hotel Atlantic Hamburg is a historic luxury hotel in Hamburg, Germany, opened in 1909. It is located in the St. Georg district, between the Außenalster lake and the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof.
| Hotel Atlantic Hamburg | |
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 Hotel Atlantic on An der Alster | |
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| General information | |
| Address | An der Alster 72−79 Hamburg, Germany |
| Coordinates | 53°33′26″N 10°0′17″E / 53.55722°N 10.00472°E |
| Opening | 2 May 1909 |
| Owner | Dr. Broermann Hotels & Residences GmbH |
| Management | Marriott Hotels |
| Other information | |
| Number of rooms | 245 |
| Number of restaurants | 2 |
| Number of bars | 2 |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
History
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The Hotel Atlantic was constructed at a cost of 14 million gold marks and was designed to house passengers on transatlantic ocean liners of the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and the Hamburg South America Line.[1] It was opened on 2 May 1909 by Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow and HAPAG general director Albert Ballin. Following the end of World War II, it was requisitioned by the British Armed Forces and used as their Hamburg headquarters from 1945 to 1950. The hotel reopened on 1 March 1950.[2] In 1957, the hotel was sold to the Kempinski chain.[3]
In 1994, German financier Dieter Bock sold Kempinski Hotels, but maintained ownership of the Hotel Atlantic.[4] In 1997, parts of the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies were filmed in the hotel. Owner Dieter Bock choked to death in the hotel on May 12, 2010.[5] In 2014, the hotel was sold to German billionaire Bernard Broermann. In 2017, it was announced that the hotel would cease to be managed by Kempinski in January 2021 and would switch to Marriott's Autograph Collection chain.[6] The hotel left Kempinski on 13 January 2021.[7]
Notable guests
edit- Subash Chandra Bose (1942)
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran and Queen Soraya (1955)
- Charles de Gaulle (1962)
- King Haile Selassie
- Josephine Baker
- Otto Hahn
- Zarah Leander
- Gina Lollobrigida
- Aristotle Onassis
- Maria Callas
- Willy Brandt
- Oskar Kokoschka
- Herbert von Karajan
- Neil Armstrong
- Juliette Gréco
- Peter O'Toole
- Henry Kissinger
- Plácido Domingo
- Giorgio Armani
- Heino Ferch
- Morgan Freeman
- Andre Agassi
- Berto Correia de Sousa
- David Copperfield
- Michael Jackson
- Keanu Reeves
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Helmut Schmidt
- Udo Lindenberg
- The Supremes (March 1965)
See also
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References
edit- ^ https://kempinski-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/34380995/press-kit_hotel-atlantic-kempinski-hamburg_en.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ https://kempinski-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/34382529/kempinski-hotel-atlantic-hamburg_pressemappe_d.pdf
- ^ "Our Story & History | Kempinski Hotels".
- ^ News, Bloomberg (November 26, 1994). "COMPANY NEWS; German Sells Stake in Luxury Hotel Chain (Published 1994)". The New York Times.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ Gillard, Michael (June 9, 2010). "Dieter Bock obituary". the Guardian.
- ^ Gaßdorf, Ulrich (December 21, 2017). "Warum sich Atlantic und die Hotelmarke Kempinski trennen". www.abendblatt.de.
- ^ "Hotel Atlantic Hamburg startet ins Jahr 2021 mit frischem Design und neuer digitaler Präsenz". pregas.de. January 13, 2021.
External links
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- Hotel Atlantic Hamburg, Autograph Collection official website
- Clippings about Hotel Atlantic Hamburg in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
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