Alois Degano
Alois Degano (born March 1887 in Schmerold, municipality of Gmund am Tegernsee; died 26 July 1960 in Gmund am Tegernsee [1] in Gmund am Tegernsee) was a German architect and building inspector.
Degano studied architecture in Munich and then worked as a freelance architect and master builder in Gmund am Tegernsee. Through Franz Xaver Schwarz, the "Reichsschatzmeister (Treasurer) of the NSDAP", for whom he had built a house in Gmund, he met Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933. Degano joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933 (membership number 2.942.463) [2][1]
After many years of working at Tegernsee,[3] he became one of the master builders in the Obersalzberg area in the Third Reich. His best-known building was the conversion of the Haus Wachenfeld into Hitler’s Berghof[4] in Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden.
Other buildings in the Third Reich were the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz (1935–1936), the Reich Chancellery Berchtesgaden (1936–1937)[5] as well as the new building of the Reichsschule Feldafing (1937–1938) on Lake Starnberg.[6]
References
- ^ a b Christa Schroeder: He was my boss, pp. 373–374
- ^ Bundesarchiv R 9361-IX FILE/5910295
- ^ Landhäuser in unser Tal at the Wayback Machine (archived 2013-09-03) (PDF; 2.1 MB) tegernseer-tal-verlag.de, Country house in Holz, architect Baurat A. Degano
- ^ Birgit Schwarz: Genius Delusion: Hitler and Art. Böhlau, 2009, section The Berghof as a Place of Art, p. 155.
- ^ The rediscovered second Reich Chancellery near Berchtesgaden. Der Spiegel, issue 33/1996.
- ^ Monuments Feldafing (PDF; 341 kB) Bavarian State Institute for the Preservation of Monuments, formerly the "Reich School of the NSDAP Feldafing", now the Bundeswehr Command Support School, built in 1938/44 according to plans by Alois Degano, D-1-88-118-51
External links
- Alois Degano in the database of the Deutsche Fotothek