Albert Speer

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (19 March 1905 in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg Germany – 1 September 1981 in London, England) was a leading German architect in the Third Reich. Speer was born on 19 March 1905 in Mannheim, Baden, Germany. He was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before he became the minister for munitions and armaments in 1942, replacing Fritz Todt in the Cabinet. After World War II he was convicted of slavery and spent 20 years in prison.

Albert Speer (1933)

Speer died of a stroke. His son, Albert Speer Jr. was also an architect.

Defendants at the IMT Nuremberg Trials
Bormann · Dönitz · Frank · Frick · Fritzsche · Funk · Göring · Hess · Jodl · Kaltenbrunner · Keitel · v.Neurath · v.Papen · Raeder · v.Ribbentrop · Rosenberg · Sauckel · Schacht · v.Schirach · Seyß-Inquart · Speer · Streicher Key: Sentenced to death · Imprisoned · Acquitted

The Hitler Cabinet (30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945)
Adolf Hitler (Chancellor and Führer)
Franz von Papen (ind) • Konstantin von Neurath • Joachim von Ribbentrop • Wilhelm Frick • Heinrich Himmler • Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (ind) • Alfred Hugenberg (DNVP) • Kurt Schmitt • Hjalmar Schacht (ind) • Hermann Göring • Walther Funk • Franz Seldte • Franz Gürtner (DNVP) • Franz Schlegelberger • Otto Georg Thierack • Werner von Blomberg (ind) • Wilhelm Keitel (ind) • Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (ind) • Julius Dorpmüller • Wilhelm Ohnesorge • Richard Walther Darré • Herbert Backe • Joseph Goebbels • Bernhard Rust • Fritz Todt • Albert Speer • Alfred Rosenberg • Hanns Kerrl • Hermann Muhs • Otto Meißner (ind) • Arthur Seyß-Inquart • Hans Frank • Hans Lammers • Martin Bormann • Karl Hermann Frank • Rudolf Hess • Ernst Röhm
All ministers were NSDAP members except where indicated ("ind" = nominally independent). Most of them later became NSDAP members, except Von Papen, Hugenberg and Von Eltz-Rübenach.

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