Leonhard Gall

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Leonhard Gall (left) with Adolf Hitler and Albert Speer in 1936 at the House of German Art in Munich.

Leonhard Gall (born August 24, 1884 in Munich ; † January 20, 1952 there ) was a German architect .

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Leonhard Gall was chief architect in the Munich architecture office of Paul Ludwig Troost, which Adolf Hitler valued . With Troost he developed z. B. the so-called steam style . Various interior fittings for German express steamers were designed in this office, the execution was mostly in the hands of the United Workshops for Art in Crafts .

Leonhard Gall became a member of the NSDAP in 1932 .

After Troost's death in 1934, Gall ran the office together with the widow Gerdy Troost . The House of German Art in Munich planned by Troost (the first monumental building of the National Socialists, for which the foundation stone had only just been laid) was completed under Gall's direction and inaugurated by Hitler in 1937. In 1938 Gall presented the prestige objects “ Führerbau in Munich” (entrance hall and study), as well as the reception hall from the Reich Chancellery in Berlin at the first German architecture exhibition in the Munich House of Art . Gall was co-editor of the magazine Die Kunst im Deutschen Reich . In 1943 Gall became Vice President of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and trustee of the Künstlerdank Foundation initiated by Joseph Goebbels .

Gall was so highly valued by Hitler as an architect that in August 1944 he not only put him on the God-gifted list , but also included him in the special list of the twelve most important visual artists.

Leonhard Gall was professor and was a city councilor in Munich. He was married to Fanny Rischbeck from Munich. His wife died in 1933. Fanny and Leonhard Gall's grave is in Munich's Ostfriedhof.

Buildings and designs (selection)

Führerbau

The former Führerbau was built in Munich from 1933 to 1937 according to plans by Paul Ludwig Troost. The first plans for the building date from 1931. It was not completed until three years after Troost's death by Gall. During the National Socialism, the Führerbau served as a representative building for Adolf Hitler. The building closed off Königsplatz together with the administration building of the NSDAP in terms of urban planning towards the east. Among other things, the Munich Agreement was signed here in 1938 .

Administration building of the NSDAP (Munich, Gabelsbergerstrasse)

Gall was involved in numerous representative buildings of National Socialism , including the administration building of the NSDAP on Gabelsbergerstrasse in Munich. However, due to the beginning of the war, this did not get beyond the bunker systems in the basement and was therefore never completed. After the war, a new building for the Technical University of Munich was built on these foundations , which was demolished again in 2007 to make way for the new building for the Munich University of Television and Film ( HFF ).

Berghof (Obersalzberg)

Interior design based on Hitler's suggestions in collaboration with Gerdy Troost .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Brantl, House of Art, Munich: a place and its history under National Socialism , Alitear-Verlag 2007, page 37.
  2. ↑ a b c d e 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 , pp. 172-173.
  3. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung 1938, issue 4
personal data
SURNAME Gall, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1952
Place of death Munich