Arthur Kannenberg

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Arthur Kannenberg (born February 23, 1896 in Charlottenburg ; † January 26, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) was Adolf Hitler's house manager .

Live and act

Kannenberg graduated from Werdersche Oberrealschule in Berlin with the secondary school leaving certificate and began an apprenticeship in 1912 in the catering business of his father Oskar Kannenberg. From 1915 he served in Telegraph Battalion I and was released as a private in 1918. From 1924 he ran his father's business, the Kannenberg restaurant , Hotel Stadt Berlin and the Onkel Toms Hütte excursion restaurant in Grunewald , which went bankrupt in 1930 .

As the manager of Pfuhl's wine and beer bars , which also frequented well-known Nazi figures such as Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring , he met Hitler, who offered him the management of the casino at the Braunes Haus party headquarters in Munich. He took up this activity in 1931. As a result, he was also entrusted with the management of the canteen of the Reichsfuhrer School of the NSDAP in Schwanthalerstrasse.

After Hitler became Reich Chancellor in 1933 , Kannenberg became house manager in the Reich Chancellery. With the help of his wife Freda, he organized the driver's housekeeping. This included, in particular, the recruitment of staff, the provision of food and beverages and the preparation of the menu, but also the organization of catering at state receptions both in the Reich Chancellery and occasionally at the Berghof ; During the war he worked in the Führer Headquarters (FHQ) Wolfsschanze and most recently in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin .

He was interned by the Americans in May 1945 and released on July 25, 1946. Der Spiegel reported in issue 39/1948 that Kannenberg had succeeded in becoming the receptionist and kitchen chef in the American officers' mess at Stein Castle near Nuremberg after his denazification . In 1957 he took over the "Schneider-Wibbel-Stuben" in Düsseldorf. According to contemporary accounts, he ran "an excellent kitchen" and entertained his guests by playing the accordion and singing. When he was questioned by the CIC , he testified that he had often entertained Hitler with the accordion.

Christa Schroeder , one of Hitler's secretaries, describes Kannenberg in her memoirs as "an excellent solo entertainer who was blessed with the proverbial Berlin wit and humor."

Trivia

An approx. 80 m long connecting passage from the Vossstrasse bunker located under the new Reich Chancellery to the pre- bunker of the so-called Führerbunker was called the Kannenberggang.

On October 18, 1940 Hitler's adjutant Wilhelm Brückner was unexpectedly dismissed by Hitler because of a dispute with Kannenberg.

literature

  • Christa Schroeder: He was my boss. 4th edition. Herbig, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-7766-2286-5 (note no. 80 and p. 53 ff.).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kerst: “Düsseldorfer Zeitreise” Hitler's accordion man dies. In: express.de. January 27, 2016, accessed November 21, 2018 .
  2. ^ Dietmar Arnold : Reich Chancellery and "Führerbunker". Legends and Reality. Links, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-353-7 , p. 125.
  3. ↑ Arthur Kannenberg . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1948, p. 18 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Guido Knopp: The last battle: Hitler's end. Edel: Books 2013, ISBN 3-95530-270-9 .
  5. ↑ Johannes Tuchel: "... and all of them the rope is waiting.": The cell prison Lehrter Straße 3 after July 20, 1944. Lukas Verlag 2014, ISBN 3-86732-178-7 , p. 2016.
  6. ↑ Heike B. Görtemaker: Eva Braun: Life with Hitler. CHBeck 2010, ISBN 3-406-58514-0 , p. 167.
personal data
SURNAME Kannenberg, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION House manager of Adolf Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1963
Place of death Dusseldorf