Albert Speer Sr.
architect (*1905 †1981)

Al­bert Speer stu­died Karls­ruhe, Mu­nich and Ber­lin at the tech­ni­cal uni­ver­sity, where he was an as­sis­tant last with Heinrich Tessenow. With the draft for the re­or­ga­niza­t­ion of NSDAP head­quar­ters in Ber­lin speer of Hit­ler exci­ted at­ten­tion. After the death of Paul Lud­wig Troost, 1934, be­came speer of its suc­ces­sors and main ar­chi­tect Hit­ler, who ap­poin­ted him the su­per­vi­sor of buil­ding of ge­ne­rals for the realm ca­pi­tal. He built the ko­los­sale marching-up area Zep­pe­l­in­feld in Nu­ern­berg (1934 – 37), the stu­dio for the sculp­tor Tho­rak in Mu­nich Bald­ham (1937) and the new Reichs­kanz­lei in Ber­lin (1938 – 39). Many of its pro­jects in usually re­du­ced klas­si­zis­ti­schem style, in­crea­sed up to the Gi­gan­to­ma­nie, did not ar­rive over plan­ning outs­ide: among other things the change con­cerning town con­struc­tion of Ber­lin (1938 – 39) with the so-called North-South axis bet­ween cen­tral sta­tion and the mo­nu­men­tal large one re­sounds, in which 200,000 hu­mans place should find, as well as the of­fice for realm mar­shal, lea­der pa­lace and realm tag buil­ding plan­ned wi­t­hin this frame­work. In si­mi­lar way also Linz a re-organization con­cerning town con­struc­tion should ex­pe­ri­en­ced (pro­jects and large-scale mo­dels de­ve­l­o­ped 1938). Du­ring the Se­cond World War Hit­ler of speers or­ga­niza­t­io­nal ability used and ap­poin­ted him 1942 the realm Mi­nis­ter for ar­ma­ment and am­mu­ni­tion. 1946 were con­dem­ned speer as a war cri­mi­nal to 20 years de­tention.