Albert Speer

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Nazi official architect convicted war criminal human

Albert Speer was a German architect and Nazi official who served as Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later as Minister of Armaments and War Production, becoming one of the most prominent defendants at the Nuremberg trials.

Aliases (2)

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer ×2
Albert Speer Jr. ×1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi official → architect → convicted war criminal → human →
almaMater	Technical University of Berlin → Technical University of Munich →
appointedBy	Adolf Hitler →
birthCountry	German Empire →
birthDate	1905-03-19 →
birthPlace	Mannheim →
charge	crimes against humanity → war crimes →
child	Albert Speer Jr. →
claimed	ignorance of the Holocaust →
closeAssociateOf	Adolf Hitler →
deathCountry	United Kingdom →
deathDate	1981-09-01 →
deathPlace	London →
defendantType	major war criminal →
designed	German Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition → New Reich Chancellery in Berlin → Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg →
familyName	Speer →
fullName	Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer →
givenName	Albert →
historicalAssessment	claims of ignorance widely disputed by historians →
imprisonedAt	Spandau Prison →
languageOfWork	German →
marriageStart	1928 →
memberOf	Nazi Party →
nationality	German →
notableFor	role in Nazi armaments production and postwar memoirs →
occupation	architect → government minister → politician →
officeEnd	1945-05 →
officeStart	1942-02-08 →
participatedIn	World War II →
partyMembershipStart	1931 →
planned	reconstruction of Berlin as “Welthauptstadt Germania” →
positionHeld	Adolf Hitler’s chief architect → General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital → Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production →
prisonTermEnd	1966 →
prisonTermStart	1946 →
religion	Protestantism →
responsibleFor	large-scale use of forced labor in armaments production →
roleDuringWorldWarII	Minister of Armaments and War Production for Nazi Germany →
sentence	20 years imprisonment →
spouse	Margarete Weber →
triedAt	Nuremberg trials →
verdict	guilty →
wrote	Inside the Third Reich → Spandau: The Secret Diaries →

Referenced by (26)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Marble Gallery → Reich Chancellery → Zeppelin Field →	architect
Speer → Speer ("Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer") →	hasNotableBearer
Reich Chancellery →	architectOfNewWing
Nuremberg Party Rally →	architecturalPlanner
Zeppelin Field →	associatedWith
Inside the Third Reich →	author
Albert Speer ("Albert Speer Jr.") →	child
Nazi Party Rally Grounds →	designedBy
Marble Gallery →	designer
Albert Speer ("Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer") →	fullName
Organisation Todt →	hasLeader
Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production →	headOfGovernmentBody
Paul Troost →	influenced
Third Reich economic bureaucracy →	keyFigure
Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production →	leader
Nazi Party Rally Grounds →	lightingDesignedBy
Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production →	minister
Nuremberg trials →	notableDefendant
Nazi Party officials →	notableMember
War Criminals Prison No. 1 →	notablePrisoner
Reich Ministry of Armaments and War Production →	officeHolder
Cabinet of Adolf Hitler →	positionHeldBy
Karl-Otto Saur →	workedUnder