Führerstadt

Guide City was awarded by Adolf Hitler Award for cities in the field of the so-called Third Reich in Nazi Germany. From Hitler to certain architects ( among others Albert Speer sen., Paul Ludwig Troost, German Bestelmeyer, Konstanty Gutschow, Hermann Giesler, Leonhard Gall and Paul Otto August Baumgarten ) developed urban restructuring plans to the connected with the award aspiration to be. Due to the war development, these plans were largely not realized. Administrative preparations, however, were made ​​: for example, the Prussian city of Altona / Elbe by an imperial law of Adolf Hitler was 1937/1938 incorporated as Greater Hamburg in order to realize on the banks of the Elbe Elbe crossing a large can.

The leaders of cities were:

• Linz: The city where Adolf Hitler spent his youth, was to be his retirement home after the war. Hitler wanted from Linz to make a "German Budapest " because, as he said it was indeed an " unforgivable parody, when the descendants of Attila and his Huns possessed the most beautiful city at the Nibelungen stream ".
• Berlin: see "World Capital Germania "
• Munich: the " Capital of the Movement "
• Hamburg: the " capital of the German shipping " ( expansion plans of Konstanty Gutschow )
• Nuremberg: the "City of the Party Rallies "
• Landsberg am Lech: the "City of Youth"