EAM-Hochhaus, Post-war high-rise building in central Kassel, Germany

The EAM-Hochhaus is a ten-storey administration building with a rectangular plan and a reinforced-concrete skeleton of 14 by 8 axes, built 1954–1956 to plans by architect Werner Seidel at the north end of Treppenstrasse, at the corner facing Scheidemannplatz. Its facade is clad in sandstone-coloured stone slabs, with grouped stone bands, high-set pivoting casement windows and recessed window niches on the upper floors. The ground floor carries a projecting cornice and large shop windows.

Architect Werner Seidel designed the building between 1954 and 1956 as headquarters for the regional energy company Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft Mitteldeutschland. Its completion coincided with Kassel's reconstruction period following World War II, when the city rebuilt its damaged infrastructure and urban landscape.

The building's name comes from its original owner, the energy company Elektrizitäts-Aktiengesellschaft Mitteldeutschland (EAM), which used it for decades. Since the city bought and converted it, it has housed Kassel's Jugendamt (youth welfare office), so the former corporate tower is now a public administrative building.

The building stands at the northern end of Treppenstrasse, at the corner where it meets Scheidemannplatz, between the main railway station and Friedrichsplatz. The ground floor has a projecting cornice and large shop windows facing the street. Since 2011 the city has housed its youth welfare office (Jugendamt) here, so the interior is in municipal use rather than open as a public monument.

The building was sold in 2011 to a Kassel real estate firm, after which the city renovated and converted it; it now houses the Jugendamt (youth welfare office). For decades before that it served the energy company EAM, whose name the tower still carries.