Leader city

Führerstadt was an award given by Adolf Hitler to cities in the area of ​​the so-called Third Reich during National Socialism . Architects appointed by Hitler himself (including Albert Speer Sr., Paul Ludwig Troost , German Bestelmeyer , Konstanty Gutschow , Hermann Giesler , Leonhard Gall and Paul Otto August Baumgarten ) developed urban redesign plans to meet the demands associated with the award. Due to the development of the war , these plans were mostly not implemented.

The leader cities were:

• Linz : The city where Adolf Hitler spent his youth was to become his retirement home after the war. That is why Hitler planned the establishment of the “ Führerstadt Linz ”.
• Berlin : see " World Capital Germania "
• Munich : the " capital of movement "
• Hamburg : the " capital of German shipping " (expansion plans by Konstanty Gutschow )
• Nuremberg : the " city ​​of the Nazi party rallies "

See also

• Architecture under National Socialism
• Redesign cities
• Gauforum
• City honorary title from the Nazi era

literature

• Jost Dülfer, Jochen Thies , Josef Henke: Building Policy in the Third Reich. A documentation. Böhlau, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-412-03477-0 .
• Ralph Giordano : If Hitler had won the war. The plans of the Nazis after the final victory . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-462-02944-4 , pp. 79–112 ( KiWi 587).