Eugen Hönig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eugen Hönig

German architect

Date of Birth: 09-May-1873

Place of Birth: Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1945

Profession: architect, politician, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Eugen Hönig (9 March 1873, Kaiserslautern, Kingdom of Bavaria – 24 June 1945) was one of Adolf Hitler's architects.
In 1931 Hönig, along with other German architects such as Alexander von Senger, Konrad Nonn, German Bestelmeyer and especially Paul Schultze-Naumburg were deputized in the National Socialist fight against modern architecture, in a para-governmental propaganda unit called the Kampfbund deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure (KDAI).
Through the pages of Völkischer Beobachter these architects actively attacked the modern style in openly racist and political tones, placing much of the blame on members of the architectural group The Ring, calling Walter Gropius an "elegant salon-bolshevist", and calling the Bauhaus "the cathedral of Marxism".