Akademiegebäude Bismarckstraße, Educational complex in Südstadt-Bult, Germany

Akademiegebäude Bismarckstraße is an educational building in Hannover with red clinker brick facades and asymmetrical building sections topped by flat roofs in a functionalist style. The Hannover University of Applied Sciences currently occupies the complex, with its connected sections arranged to create a unified campus arrangement.

The Pedagogical Academy was planned from 1920 by educator Eduard Spranger, and its cornerstone was laid on 28 May 1929 for 300 students and 24 lecturers. Prussia halted construction in 1931 amid the Great Depression and a teacher surplus, and the academy closed in winter semester 1931/32. The Nazis resumed the shell in 1933 under Bernhard Rust, and the building was completed in 1935.

From 1934 the building housed the only "Hochschule für Lehrerinnenbildung" in the German Reich, where 175 female students trained; in 1941 it was downgraded to a teacher-training institute that also admitted 14-year-old girls without the Abitur. After 1946 the British occupation authority and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk shared the premises with the teacher training. From 1978 the education department of the University of Hannover used it until its closure in 2005.

The site is currently occupied by the Hannover University of Applied Sciences and has undergone renovations in recent years. Visiting is best done outside of lecture periods when the campus is less busy.

The complex features a 34-meter-high music tower specifically designed to isolate sound and separate practice spaces from one another. Its seminar rooms are arranged in semicircles to encourage interactive teaching, reflecting the educational ideals of the time.