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A Short Biography of Albert Speer

Author Name:

Albert Speer

Born As:

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer

Other Names:

Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer

Born:

19 Mar 1905

Died:

1 Sep 1981




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Architect and high-ranking Nazi German government official                          
Selected Works:

Inside the Third Reich - 1970
Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. Republished in paperback in 1997.

Spandau: The Secret Diaries - 1976 - Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.

 Infiltration: How Heinrich Himmler Schemed to Build an SS Industrial Empire - 1981
Architektur. Arbeiten 1933-1942. Propyläen - 1995.                          
Mother Lina
Father Albert - Speer was the second child of three sons.
Wife Margarete Weber - six children: Albert - 1934, Hilde - 1936, Fritz - 1937, Margarete - 1938, Arnold - 1940, born Adolf, renamed after 1945 and Ernst - 1942.                          
                          
Sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, most of which was served at Spandau Prison, West Berlin.

Speer's daughter Hilde Schramm, became a noted left-wing parliamentarian and a leader of the Green Party in Berlin.Speer's eldest son, Albert, became a successful architect in his own right. Second daughter Margret Nissen became a photographer and Arnold, Speer's second youngest son became a community doctor.