Gerdy Troost

Gerdy Troost, Troost Gerhardine actually born Andresen ( born March 3, 1904 in Stuttgart, † 30 January 2003 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German architect and the wife of the spear 's predecessor, Paul Ludwig Troost.

Life and work

Troost was the daughter of Bremen Arts and Crafts dealer Andresen, who ran several wooden art workshops. After her school years ( 1910-1920 ) she worked in his father's farms, where they met in 1923 Paul Ludwig Troost. They both moved to Munich in 1924 and married in 1925. About her husband she met in 1930 Adolf Hitler know and joined the NSDAP in 1932.

After the death of her husband in 1934, Gerdy Troost led the architecture office together with his former employee Leonhard Gall on. She supervised the construction of the House of German Art in Munich's Prince Regent Street, which her ​​husband had planned. They also redesigned the Royal Square and was responsible for various "Lead -built " and honor temple.

Later, she increasingly devoted himself to the arts and produced, among other gifts for Hermann Goering and Benito Mussolini. In the "House of German Art " in 1935, she was a board member. From Hitler was appointed in 1937 on his birthday, April 20, to Professor, 1938, she received an advisory post at the Bavaria Film Kunst GmbH. In the same year she published the book The building in the new empire, a standard work on the self-understanding of Nazi architecture.

By war's end, she remained active as an architectural consultant in the field of Hitler. In 1943 she received a grant of Hitler in the amount of 100,000 Reichsmarks. As part of the denazification it was classified before the main Spruchkammer Munich as a " lesser offenders " and ordered to pay $ 500 and sentenced ten years of professional ban. After the deadline Troost again worked and lived until her death in Schützing ( Haiming ) in Upper Bavaria.

Gerdy Troost remained even after 1945 a close friend and comrade disposition of Winifred Wagner.