Walter Brugmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Brugmann

German architect

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1887

Place of Birth: Leipzig, Leipzig District, Germany

Date of Death: 26-May-1944

Profession: architect

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Walter Brugmann (2 April 1887 – 26 May 1944) was a Nazi German architect.
From 1928 he was head of the city engineering office in Leipzig.
From 1933 he was a city planner in Nuremberg, and in 1940 worked as general supervisor for Berlin.
From 1942 he worked as head of the Organisation Todt in southern Russia.
A member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), he died in an unexplained plane crash 1944.Brugmann led the Nuremberg Office of Structural Engineering of the massive Party Rally Grounds project devised by Adolf Hitler, consisting of marching field for military exercises, stadium, arena, congress hall, and zeppelin field.
Brugmann handled stone supplies delivered by concentration camp prisoners.
The project took off in 1940, when the slave labor brought in from across Europe delivered 19,075 cubic meters of quality stone to Nuremberg Party Rally Grounds for Brugmann construction.
Work came to a complete stop in 1943 due to looming German defeat at the front.