Biographical Summary:

• 1923-1927 various architectural schools
• 1927-1931 teaching assistant Berlin Institute of Technology
• 1930 joins Nazi Party
• 1932 commissioned by Goebbels to design the Nazi Party District Office in Berlin
• 1933 assigned as an assistant to Paul Troost in the building the new Chancellory
• 1934 assumes the position of head architect upon Paul Troost's death
• 1934-1942 a confidant of Adolf Hitler and lead architect and designer on numerous state projects in Germany
• 1942-1945 replaces Fritz Todt (killed in airplane crash) as Minister of Armaments and War Production
• responsible for the use of slave labor in war production
• served twenty-years in Spandau and authored several bestselling memoirs after his release
• scored in the middle position among Nuremberg defendants on IQ test (12th highest): 128