As part of the secret German re-armament during the interwar period from 14 October 1934, an intelligence academy was planned to be constructed in Halle (Saale).

In the very short construction period up to the use of the first buildings from 1935, material transports were carried out by rail, for which a siding had been moved from the Halle-Hettstedter Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft railway to the academy.

In order to conceal the activities in Halle, the planning of the buildings was initially carried out under the guise of the construction of a pasta factory.

The site also included the staff and support personnel of the airport, Fliegerhorst Halle-Nietleben, that was then rededicated from civilian to military use, which was under the command of Airport Division 7./III (German: Flughafenbereichskommando 7) in Großenhain, Saxony and subordinated to Air District III (German: Luftgau Command III) in Berlin.

At the centre of the school is a large roll call square whose entrance is flanked by two pavilion-like guard houses.

To the right and left of the roll call square are the school buildings in the form of two large four-storey three-wing systems whose courtyards are delimited by colonnade-like corridors to the roll-call area.

The school was adjoined by the barracks area, which was opened up by an approximately 1.5 kilometre garrison road running in an oval.