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Albert Speer (1933)

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

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
Coat of arms of Nazi GermanyThe Hitler Cabinet
(30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945)
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 became later also NSDAP members, except Von Papen, Hugenberg and Von Eltz-Rübenach.





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