Imperial School of German Technology
The Reichsschule der Deutschen Technik was a National Socialist training facility of the National Socialist Federation of German Technology (NSBDT) on the Plassenburg in Kulmbach . It was opened by circular from the Reich administration of the NSBDT of December 7, 1937 with the approval of the Gauleiter of the Gau Bavarian Ostmark Fritz Wächtler . Reichswalter and thus the leader of this institution was Fritz Todt . The writer Emil Maier-Dorn was always on site and was the Reich training officer . One of the main tasks of the Reichsschule was to bring different engineering disciplines closer together in the way of thinking so that large building projects could be tackled holistically. This was initially carried out on the Reichsautobahn project and later generally transferred to the Todt organization. Examples of the design of the Reichsautobahn through the cooperation of civil engineers, architects and so-called landscape lawyers are still preserved today in the area of the Federal Motorway 9 in the south of Thuringia, such as the Tautendorfer Bridge, a document for the continued effects of Bauhaus influences after 1933.
The medieval Plassenburg was extensively rebuilt by the architect Siegfried Schmelcher and architecturally changed by the demolition of the prison . Todt's daughter Ilsebill Todt set up an office for her father in the castle. After Todt's death, the family stored various valuables of the fallen man in the Plassenburg, which they received back in 1954 after a long legal dispute with the city of Kulmbach.
Since 1938 there were plans to expand the training facility with a house of German technology in Munich.
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- Wolfgang Schoberth "Between Frankenwarte and engineering forge" in: The Plassenburg. To the story of a landmark. Lichtenfels 2008.
- Jeannine Fiedler, Bauhaus, Tandem Verlag 2006, p. 34: Bauhaus and National Socialism - a chapter of modernity, author Paul Bets