1. NAZI ARCHITECTURE

2. HERMANN GIESLER
 German architect
during Nazi Era
 Academy for Applied
Arts in Munich
 1933- Master of
building of districts in
Sonthofen
 1937- professor

3. ORDENSBURG
 Sonthofen
 Training area for DAF
 German labor front
 ideological and
political training for
party members of
the NSDAP
 Countryside to inspire
 political leaders of the
NSDAP instead of
DAF

4. THE PLAN
 2,500 people hall
 Indoor market
 Dining hall and
kitchen
 Hospital
 Theater
 Lecture halls
 Library
 Stadium
 Outdoor 100 meter
swimming pool

5. ORDENSBURG

6. ALBERT SPEER
 Architect
 Minister of Armaments
and War Production for
the Third Reich
 "the Nazi who said sorry“
 Zeppelinfeld stadium in
Nuremberg
 Party rallies
 Reich Chancellery

7. ZEPPELINTRIBUNE
 Where rallies were
held
 Capable of holding
340,000 people
 130 anti-aircraft
searchlights
 “cathedral of ice”
The Cathedral of
light above the
Zeppelintribune

9. REICH CHANCELLERY
 Office for the
chancellor of Germany
 Now called Kanzleramt
 Old and New
Chancellery shared
the large gardens with
the underground
Führerbunker, where
Hitler committed
suicide at the end of
World War II in 1945.

10.  Cost immaterial
 4000 workers in
shifts
 Completed in
under a year
 Cost over 90
Million Reichsmark
 Over 1 billion New Reich
dollars today Chancellery:
gallery, 1939.

12. Location of Old (15) and New
Reich Chancellery (1) with
Vorbunker and Führerbunker
(10).
Bronze eagle from the
New Reich Chancellery
at the Imperial War
Museum.
Nazis used the
eagle to
associate their
power with
pagan gods
and ancient
empires

13. Similarities?
Differences?
Purpose?