The Hotel Atlantic Hamburg is a historic luxury hotel in

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, Germany, opened in 1909. It is located in the

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district, between the

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lake and the

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History

The Hotel Atlantic was constructed at a cost of 14 million

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and was designed to house passengers on transatlantic

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of the

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(HAPAG) and the Hamburg South America Line. It was opened on 2 May 1909 by

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and HAPAG general director

Albert Ballin Albert Ballin (15 August 1857 – 9 November 1918) was a German shipping magnate. He was the general director of the Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft (HAPAG) or Hamburg-America Line, which for a time was the world's largest s ...

. Following the end of

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, it was requisitioned by the

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and used as their Hamburg headquarters from 1945 to 1950. The hotel reopened on 1 March 1950. In 1957, the hotel was sold to the

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chain. In 1994, German financier

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sold Kempinski Hotels, but maintained ownership of the Hotel Atlantic. In 1997, parts of the

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'' were filmed in the hotel. Owner Dieter Bock choked to death in the hotel on May 12, 2010. 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

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chain. The hotel left Kempinski on January 13, 2021.

Notable guests

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(March 1965)

References

External links

Hotel Atlantic Hamburg, Autograph Collection official website
* Autograph Collection Hotels Hotels in Germany Buildings and structures in Hamburg-Mitte 1909 establishments in Germany Hotel buildings completed in 1909 Hotels established in 1909 {{Hamburg-struct-stub

History

Notable guests

See also

References

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