NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne The NS Documentation Centre of the City of Cologne () was founded by a resolution passed by the Cologne city council on December 13, 1979 and has become the largest regional memorial site in all of Germany for the victims of the Nazis. Since 1988, it has been housed in "EL-DE Haus," the EL-DE building, named for the initials of its owner, Catholic businessman Leopold Dahmen. This building was the headquarters of the Cologne Gestapo (secret police) between December 1935 and March 1945. In the final months of the war, several hundred
Cologne I and Neustadt-Nord. The latter area includes about half of Cologne's old and new town areas. The following table does not list parties which did not contest or gain constituency votes. Cologne I Cologne I () is one of the four electoral districts (German: "Wahlkreis") covering the city of Cologne in the German Bundestag. Part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the constituency elects one representative under the mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 94. Covering the south eastern quarter of the city of Cologne, the constituency contains the entirety