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1822
First trade exhibition
1874
"Building and Furniture Industry Fair"
1882
Pavilions were destroyed in a great fire
1897
First car exhibition
1913
Construction of S-Bahnhof Witzleben
1914
The foundations were laid
1923
Gemeinnützige Berliner Messe-Aufbau-Gesellschaft
1924
Berliner Messe-Amt; First German radio exhibition; Start to work on Berlin's Radio Tower, the Funkturm
1926
First Green Week; Opening of the Funkturm as Berlin's landmark
1928
First International Aviation Exhibition
1929/1930
The garden under the Funkturm becomes closed
1935
A fire destroyed the Radio Hall -> rebuilding
1936
Construction of the Deutschlandhalle in only nine month
1939
All the halls were requisitioned for storage purposes
1945
Berlin and its exhibition grounds were destroyed
1946
Rebuilding of the exhibition ground
1947
First exhibition under the Radio Tower after the war
1948
"Green Week", "Building achievements" and "Christmas fair"
1950
First German Industrial Exhibition; Five trade fair events; Rebuilding of the halls
1957
Congress Hall in Berlin/Tiergarten was built; Rebuilding of the Deutschlandhalle
1961
25th anniversary of Grenn Week; The German Radio, Television and Gramophone Exhibition came back after 22 years
1964
Foundations were laid for the International Tourism Exchange
1970
"Berliner Ausstellungen" and "Ausstellungsdienst Berlin" combined to form "Ausstellungs-, Messe-, Kongress-GmbH" (AMK Berlin)
1971
Opening of the six new halls
1973
Start to build the ICC
1975
The Car Exhibition was named "aaa"
1979
ICC was opened
1981
The IFA returned to Berlin
1985
AMK Berlin the second time "Best convention center of the year"
1992
"Messe Berlin GmbH" for the first time also achieved postive operating results; The International Aerospace Exhibition retourned
1993
First Fruit Logistica
1996
First InnoTrans, since then every two years
1999
Construction had largely come to an end
2000
First e/home
2001
First Build IT and CMS
2002
First HomeTech; Completion of the Main South Entrance
2003
Messe Berlin and VIVA group set up a strategic partnership for Popkomm 2004 in Berlin