Nazi architecture

(Adolf Hitler) ( April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 to his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adolf Hitler"

:For the son of Albert Speer, also an architect, see Albert Speer (the younger) ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Speer"

Alexander von Senger was a German architect under Adolf Hitler. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexander von Senger"

Alfred Rosenberg ( January 12, 1893– October 16, 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi party, who later held several important posts in the Nazi government. At Nuremberg he was tried and sentenced to death as a war criminal. He is considered the main author of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, Lebensraum, abolition of the Versailles Treaty, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Rosenberg"

Arno Breker (Elberfeld, now Wuppertal, July 19, 1900 - Dusseldorf, February 13, 1991) was a German sculptor best known for being endorsed by the National Socialists in Adolf Hitler's Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arno Breker"

The Atlantic Wall ( Gr Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by the German Third Reich during the Second World War along the western coast of Europe (1942-44) in order to defend against an anticipated Anglo-American invasion of the continent from Great Britain. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atlantic Wall"

Autobahn (pronounced in IPA) is the German word for a major high- speed road confined to motor vehicles and having full control of access, similar to a motorway or freeway in English-speaking countries. In English, the word "Autobahn" is used to refer only to these roads in German-speaking countries and usually refers to the German Autobahn specifically. German autobahns have no general speed limit (though about 50% of the total length is subject to local and/or conditional limits), but the "recommended speed" is 130 km/h (81 mph). Austrian and Swiss autobahns have general speed limits of 130 km/h and 120km/h, respectively. In German, the word is pronounced as described above, and its plural is Autobahnen; in English, however, the segment "auto" is typically pronounced as in other English words such as "automobile", and the plural is almost always autobahns. The official name of the Autobahn in Germany is Bundesautobahn (BAB) . ...more on Wikipedia about "Autobahn"

The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Germany. ...more on Wikipedia about "Berghof (Hitler)"

Clemens Klotz (31 May 1886-1969) was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clemens Klotz"

Deutsches Stadion was designed by Albert Speer for the Nazi party rally grounds in Nuremberg and according to Speer himself, inspired not by the Circus Maximus but by the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, which had impressed him so much when he visited Athens in 1935 ( Speer, Erinnerungen, 75). ...more on Wikipedia about "Deutsches Stadion"

Ernst Sagebiel (born 2 October 1892 in Braunschweig (Brunswick); died 1970 in Bavaria) was a German architect who is most commonly associated with the Third Reich. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ernst Sagebiel"

Eugen Honig was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. In 1931 Honig, along with other German architects such as Alexander von Senger, Konrad Nonn, German Bestelmeyer and especially Paul Schultze-Naumburg were deputized in the National Socialist fight against modern architecture, in a para-governmental propaganda unit called the Kampfbund deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure (KDAI). Through the pages of Völkischer Beobachter these architects actively attacked the modern style in openly racist and political tones, placing much of the blame on members of the architectural group The Ring, calling Walter Gropius an "elegant salon-bolshevist", and calling the Bauhaus "the cathedral of Marxism". ...more on Wikipedia about "Eugen Honig"

Flak towers ( German: Flakturm) were large AA gun blockhouses used by the Luftwaffe to prevent overflights of key areas in certain cities in World War II. They also served as air-raid shelters for tens of thousands of people and to coordinate air defence. With concrete walls up to 3.5m thick these towers were considered to be invulnerable to attack with the usual ordnance carried by Allied bombers, however it is unlikely that they would have withstood Grand Slam bombs which successfully penetrated much thicker reinforced concrete . ...more on Wikipedia about "Flak tower"

Franz Ruff was a minor architect during the National Socialist regime in Germany, the son of Ludwig Ruff and responsible for completing the Nuremberg Party Congress Hall after his father's death in 1934. ...more on Wikipedia about "Franz Ruff" The Ultimate http://www.shortopedia.com Machine.

Johann Friedrich (Fritz) Höger (1877 - 1949) was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fritz Hoger"

Fritz Todt ( September 4, 1891 – February 8, 1942) was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash during World War II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fritz Todt"

The Führerbunker (or "Fuehrerbunker") is a common name for a certain complex of subterranean rooms in Berlin, Germany where Adolf Hitler committed suicide during World War II. The bunker was the 13th and last of Hitler's Führerhauptquartiere or Fuehrer Headquarters (another was the famous Wolfsschanze). ...more on Wikipedia about "Führerbunker"

German Bestelmeyer ( 1874- 1942) was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. During the Third Reich mere opposition to Bauhaus architecture was enough to gain official approval for almost any architect, as with German Bestelmeyer. A member of the Munich School to which Paul Troost also belonged, he had been trained under Theodor Fischer. He was praised by Paul Schultze-Naumburg in a lecture in 1931, because he aligned himself with supporters of traditional styles. In 1934, he became head of the Munich Academy of Art to which he enlisted Alexander von Senger, the passionate opponent of Bolshevik architecture. Later, Bestelmeyer designed the Luftwaffe office building on the Prinzregentenstrasse in Munich. This traditional building and his other works were singled out for praise in the later thirties. An article he wrote in 1934 sums up his ideas and probably drew the approval of Nazis. Admiring von Senger's criticism of Le Corbusier, he found that, in the twenties architecture was petrifying into mere architectural technology, creating souless buildings. The flat roof, he said was simply not practical for Germany's climate. His 1928 alliance with Schultze-Naumburg, Schmittehenner and others into "The Block", a group of architects determined to combat the experiment of the Bauhaus made him acceptable. ...more on Wikipedia about "German Bestelmeyer"

Heinrich Tessenow ( 1876 Rostock, Germany - 1950 Berlin, Germany) was a German architect, professor, and urban planner active in the Weimar era. ...more on Wikipedia about "Heinrich Tessenow"

Hermann Giesler ( April 2 1898, Siegen - January 20, 1987, Düsseldorf) was a German architect during the Nazi era, one of the two architects most favored and rewarded by Adolf Hitler (the other being Albert Speer). ...more on Wikipedia about "Hermann Giesler"

Josef Thorak (b 7 February 1889 at Salzburg, Austria; d 26 February 1952 at Hartmannsberg, Germany) was an Austrian- German sculptor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Josef Thorak"

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Julius Schulte-Frohlinde (1894 - 1968) was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Julius Schulte-Frohlinde"

The Kehlsteinhaus is a chalet-style building, which used to be an extension of the Obersalzberg complex built by the Nazis in the German Alps near Berchtesgaden. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kehlsteinhaus"

Konrad Nonn was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. In 1931 Konrad Nonn, along with other German architects such as Alexander von Senger, Eugen Honig, German Bestelmeyer and especially Paul Schultze-Naumburg were deputized in the National Socialist fight against modern architecture, in a para-governmental propaganda unit called the Kampfbund deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure (KDAI). Through the pages of Völkischer Beobachter these architects actively attacked the modern style in openly racist and political tones, placing much of the blame on members of the architectural group The Ring, calling Walter Gropius an "elegant salon-bolshevist", and calling the Bauhaus "the cathedral of Marxism". ...more on Wikipedia about "Konrad Nonn"

Professor Leonhard Gall was one of Adolf Hitler's architects. Gall worked for Paul Troost and he designed a new chancellery for Munich. He helped to complete the House of German Art after Troost's death. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leonhard Gall" The text you are reading is from shortopedia

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