Gerdy Troost

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Adolf Hitler, Gerdy Troost, Adolf Ziegler and Joseph Goebbels on a tour of the House of German Art on May 5, 1937

Gerdy Troost , actually Gerhardine Troost b. Andresen (born March 3, 1904 in Stuttgart ; † January 30, 2003 in Bad Reichenhall ) was a German architect and the wife of Speer's predecessor Paul Ludwig Troost .

life and work

Troost was the daughter of the Bremen arts and crafts dealer Andresen, who ran several wood art workshops. After finishing school (1910 to 1920), she worked in her father's company, where she met Paul Ludwig Troost in 1923. Both moved to Munich in 1924 and married in 1925. She met Adolf Hitler through her husband in 1930 and joined the NSDAP in 1932 .

After the death of her husband in 1934, Gerdy Troost continued his architectural office together with his former colleague Leonhard Gall . She supervised the construction of the House of German Art on Munich's Prinzregentenstrasse , which her husband had planned. Furthermore, she redesigned the Königsplatz and was responsible for various “Führerbauten” and temples of honor; together with Gall she also designed the interior architecture of Hitler's Berghof country house on Obersalzberg.

She later devoted herself to the arts and crafts and made gifts for Hermann Göring and Benito Mussolini , among other things . In 1935 she became a member of the board of directors of the “House of German Art”. She was appointed professor by Hitler on his birthday , April 20, in 1937 , and in 1938 she received a position on the advisory board at Bavaria Filmkunst GmbH . In the same year she published the book Das Bauen im neue Reich , a standard work on the self-image of Nazi architecture.

Until the end of the war she worked as an architecture consultant in Hitler's environment. In 1943 she received a grant of 100,000 Reichsmarks from Hitler . As part of the denazification , she was classified as a "minor offender" before the main court in Munich and sentenced to pay DM 500  and a ten-year professional ban . After this time Troost worked again and lived in Schützing ( Haiming ) in Upper Bavaria until her death .

Even after 1945 Gerdy Troost remained a close confidante and like-minded woman of Winifred Wagner .

literature

  • Sabine Brantl: House of Art Munich. A place and its history under National Socialism. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86520-242-0 ( Edition Monacensia ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Main source: Hermann Weiß (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon zum “Third Reich”. Revised new edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-13086-7 ( Fischer 13086 The time of National Socialism ).
  2. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung 1938, issue 4
  3. ^ Building in the New Kingdom, Volume 1 , online edition, accessed on November 27, 2012
  4. ↑ Gerd R. Ueberschär , Winfried Vogel : Serving and earning. Hitler's gifts to his elites. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-10-086002-0 .
  5. ↑ Jonathan Petropoulos: Art as Politics in the Third Reich . 1999, p. 277
  6. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 620.
personal data
SURNAME Troost, Gerdy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Troost, Gerhardine; Andresen, Gerhardine; Andresen, Sophie Gerhardine Wilhelmine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect in the environment of Adolf Hitler
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH February 2003
Place of death Bad Reichenhall