Type: Architect
Birth: August 17, 1878 (Elberfeld)
Death: January 21, 1934 (Munich)
Paul Ludwig Troost became Hitler’s foremost architect (succeeded by Albert Speer) whose neo-classical style was for a time the official architecture of the Third Reich. He planned and built many state and municipal edifices throughout Germany. Both Paul Ludwig Troost and Albert Speer are regarded as the two most influential architects of the Third Reich. Troost, however, was also a painter (much of his painted work was lost/destroyed in the war years or shortly thereafter).
Hitler posthumously awarded Troost the German national prize for Art and Science (‘Goldene Ehrenzeichen’) and Science in 1938 (in the Neue Reuchskanzlei). The ‘Deutschen Nationalpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft’ (German national prize for Art and Science) was established by Hitler as a replacement for the Nobel Prize.
Hitler visited the grave of architect Paul Ludwig Troost in the Nordfriedhof . München, Nordfriedhof. Plot 46-Row 16-Grave 11.
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- Brown House
- Felderrnhalle Mahnmal
- Führerbau (Führer Building)
- Verwaltungsbau (Administration Building)
- Ehrentempels
- House of Art (Haus der Kunst)
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The bronze Party’s eagle with swastika (Hoheitszeichen) on the gravestone was created by Joseph Wackerle in 1934; Troost and Wackerle had been close friends. The eagle has been removed from the grave (whereabouts unknown) and the gravestone still exists today (including for his wife Gerdy Troost).
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