Georg-von-Rauch-Haus, Alternative housing collective in Kreuzberg, Germany.

The Georg-von-Rauch-Haus is a brick building on the northwest side of Mariannenplatz in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Its facade has a projecting central tower with a tall, narrow multi-paned window and a steep grey tiled roof. The lower walls are covered in graffiti, and a white diamond sign reads "DIESES HAUS IST NICHT ZUM ABRISS FREIGEGEBEN". It is used as a self-managed residential collective.

On 8 December 1971, a teach-in at the Technische Universität Berlin commemorating Georg von Rauch ended with a concert by Ton Steine Scherben; participants then occupied the vacant former nurses' dormitory of Bethanien hospital. The authorities legalised the occupation with a provisional usage contract, and the house was named after von Rauch, who had died in a shootout with police days earlier. A police raid with 400 officers followed on 19 April 1972.

The house takes its name from Georg von Rauch, a member of the Berlin urban guerrilla movement who died in a shootout with police in December 1971, days before the occupation. The occupiers named the building after him, and the Rauch-Haus-Song by Ton Steine Scherben, written about the April 1972 police raid, made the house known beyond Kreuzberg. Today around 40 residents run youth-cultural events and a weekly plenum where everyone has an equal vote.

The house is a lived-in collective, not a museum, so visits are limited to the street and Mariannenplatz. From the square you can read the white diamond sign "DIESES HAUS IST NICHT ZUM ABRISS FREIGEGEBEN" and the graffiti on the painted ground floor. Youth-cultural events are announced at the entrance; the building belongs to the Bremer Höhe cooperative since 2013.

Georg von Rauch was a member of the Berlin city guerrilla group Bewegung 2. Juni, not the RAF; he died in a shootout with police on 4 December 1971, four days before the occupation. The squatters named the house after him at the time of the takeover. Police raided it on 19 April 1972 with some 400 officers, a raid Rio Reiser later sang about in the Rauch-Haus-Song.