Alois Degano

Alois Degano (3 March 1887 in Schmerold, municipality Gmund am Tegernsee; † July 26 1960^[1] in Gmund am Tegernsee) was a German architect and Baurat. Degano studied architecture in Munich and then worked as an independent architect and master builder in Gmund am Tegernsee. About Franz Xaver Schwarz, the "Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP", for whom he had built a house in Gmund, he met Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933. Degano joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933 (membership number 2,942,463).^[2][1] After many years of working at Tegernsee,^[3] he was born in the Third Reich one of the master builders in the Führersperrgebiet Obersalzberg. His most famous building was the conversion of the Wachenfeld house into the Berghof^[4] Adolf Hitlers in Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden. Other buildings in the Third Reich were the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz (1935–1936), the Reich Chancellery Berchtesgaden (1936–1937)^[5] as well as the new building of the Reichsschule Feldafing (1937–1938) on Lake Starnberg.^[6]

Destroyed Berghof

SS-Junkerschule Bad Tölz

External links

• Alois Degano in the database of the Deutsche Fotothek

References

1. Christa Schroeder: He was my boss, pp. 373–374
2. Bundesarchiv R 9361-IX FILE/5910295
3. Landhäuser in unser Tal at the Wayback Machine (archived 2013-09-03) (PDF; 2.1 MB) tegernseer-tal-verlag.de, Country house in Holz, architect Baurat A. Degano
4. Birgit Schwarz: Geniewahn: Hitler und die Kunst. Böhlau, 2009, section The Berghof as a Place of Art, p. 155.
5. The rediscovered second Reich Chancellery near Berchtesgaden. Der Spiegel, issue 33/1996.
6. Monuments Feldafing (PDF; 341 kB) Bavarian State Institute for the Preservation of Monuments, formerly the "Reich School of the NSDAP Feldafing", now the Bundeswehr Command Support School, built in 1938/44 according to plans by Alois Degano, D-1-88-118-51