Badischer Bahnhof is the Basel railway terminus where German trains arrive. In the planned operation to meet Richard Cuers, it served as a point of observation: Tomps was to identify Cuers as he came through passport control and follow him to the rendezvous elsewhere in the city.

Setting and Position

The station is described as one of Basel’s two main railway termini, with the German trains arriving there. It lay across the Rhine from the Schweizerhof Hotel, where Captain Lauth was to wait in a private room. The plan thus divided the operation between the station, the initial meeting place at Münsterplatz, and the hotel where the interview would take place.

Role in the Basel Operation

Tomps was assigned to Badischer Bahnhof because he knew Cuers by sight. His task was to watch Cuers emerge from the Berlin train and establish that he was not being followed, then tail him to Münsterplatz. The station was therefore not the meeting site but the first checkpoint in a carefully staged transfer from arrival to rendezvous.

Narrative Significance

The plan makes the station part of a coordinated surveillance route rather than a backdrop. Its position across the Rhine from the hotel and its role as the arrival point for German trains shaped the division of duties: Tomps would observe and follow, while the interview itself was reserved for Lauth. The evidence describes these arrangements as a plan, not as an account of what ultimately occurred at the station.