Hermann Bartels

Hermann Bartels ( born April 14, 1900 in Minden, † January 13, 1989 in Essen ) was a German architect who was in charge of the Nazi Party and the Nazi state with major construction projects.

Life

1933, Bartels was at that time already Gaukulturwart and Office of the NSDAP, he was appointed by Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler was appointed chief architect for the planned reconstruction of the Wewelsburg the SS castle. Bartels 1939, a first draft and expanded the plans to 1944 to numerous other projects, which provided for a complete transformation of the village of Wewelsburg and relocation of part of the population. Since 1939, concentration camp prisoners were used for the building, for the first a branch of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was set up as a local warehouse, from which then the concentration camp Niederhagen emerged. The prisoners arrived in the construction of the so-called cab 1 is used, a prestigious villa, which served as a residence Bartels.

1938 won Bartels together with Felix Ganteführer the tender of Lippe government for a monument to be erected on the hill near Detmold Hiddeser for " eternal memory " to the electoral victory of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in the country lip. The decision for the designed of the two winners of " People's Hall ", which hold 10,000 people and was to form the core of a more comprehensive system, hit a jury, Albert Speer and the Gauleiter Alfred Meyer belonged. The approval of this decision issued Adolf Hitler personally, Heinrich Himmler and the Reich Organization Leader of the NSDAP, Robert Ley.

Bartels was also entrusted with the planning work for the redesign of the city of Münster and thereby creating party buildings, as Münster 1939 should be declared to be " redesigning city " and redesigned as a provincial capital within the meaning of the NSDAP.

On June 21, 1942 Hermann Bartels was promoted to SS - Standartenführer.