General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital

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The General Building Inspector for the Reich Capital was a high-ranking Nazi planning office responsible for overseeing Adolf Hitler’s grand architectural and urban redevelopment schemes for Berlin.


Statements (41)
Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi government office
urban planning authority
appliesToJurisdiction Berlin
appointedBy Adolf Hitler
country Nazi Germany
employer Albert Speer NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork architecture
city redevelopment
urban planning
firstOfficeholder Albert Speer NERFINISHED
goal express Nazi ideology through architecture
transform Berlin into a monumental world capital
hadAuthorityOver building permits in Berlin
demolition of existing buildings in Berlin
land-use planning in Berlin
headOfGovernmentRoleFor Reich capital Berlin
historicalContext Holocaust era
Second World War
ideology Nazism
languageOfName German
linkedToEvent Nuremberg trials (as part of evidence on Nazi planning)
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Berlin
mainFunction monumental state architecture planning
planning and overseeing architectural redevelopment of Berlin
urban redevelopment
notableOfficeholder Albert Speer NERFINISHED
officialName Generalbauinspektor für die Reichshauptstadt
oversaw forced relocations connected to redevelopment plans
large-scale expropriations of property in Berlin
partOf Nazi German state apparatus
politicalAlignment National Socialist German Workers Party
responsibleForProject Great Hall of the People (Volkshalle) design planning
Welthauptstadt Germania plan
new Reich Chancellery surroundings planning
north–south axis of Berlin
seat Berlin
shortName GBI
subordinateTo Adolf Hitler
timePeriod Nazi era
typeOfOrganization centralized planning office
usedFor propaganda through monumental architecture

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Albert Speer
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