Albert Speer Net Worth

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Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer (German: [??pe???] (13px listen); March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry", he accepted moral responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for complicity in crimes of the Nazi regime. His level of involvement in the persecution of the Jews and his level of knowledge of the Holocaust remain matters of dispute.Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931, launching him on a political and governmental career which lasted fourteen years. His architectural skills made him increasingly prominent within the Party and he became a member of Hitler's inner circle. Hitler instructed him to design and construct a number of structures, including the Reich Chancellery and the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg where Party rallies were held. Speer also made plans to reconstruct Berlin on a grand scale, with huge buildings, wide boulevards, and a reorganized transportation system.In February 1942, Hitler appointed Speer Minister of Armaments and War Production. Under his leadership, Germany's war production continued to increase despite considerable Allied bombing. After the war, he was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the Nazi regime, principally for the use of forced labor. He served his full sentence, most of it at Spandau Prison in West Berlin.Following his release from Spandau in 1966, Speer published two bestselling autobiographical works, Inside the Third Reich and Spandau: The Secret Diaries, detailing his often close personal relationship with Hitler, and providing readers and historians with a unique perspective on the workings of the Nazi regime. He later wrote a third book, Infiltration, about the SS. Speer died of natural causes in 1981 while on a visit to London.

Full NameAlbert Speer
Date Of BirthMarch 19, 1905
Died1981-09-01
Place Of BirthMannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Height6' 0½" (1.84 m)
ProfessionWriter, Art Department
EducationKarlsruhe Institute of Technology, Technical University of Munich, Technical University of Berlin
NationalityGerman
SpouseMargarete Weber
ChildrenAlbert Speer, Jr., Hilde Schramm, Fritz Speer, Margret Nissen, Arnold Speer, Ernst Speer
ParentsAlbert Friedrich Speer, Luise Speer
SiblingsErnst Speer, Hermann Speer
AwardsWriters Guild of America Award for Television: Long Form – Multi-part
MoviesInside the Third Reich, As from Afar
Star SignPisces
#Quote
1[January 30, 1964] Thirty-one years ago today Hitler took power ... a few months later I met Hitler by chance. And from that moment on everything changed; my whole life was lived under a kind of high tension. Strange, how quickly I gave up everything that had been important to me up to then: private life with my family, my leanings, my principles of architecture. Yet I never had the feeling I was making a break, let alone betraying anything I cherished; rather the feeling was one of liberation and intensification, as though only then was I coming to my proper self. In the following period Hitler accorded me many triumphs, acquaintanceship with power and fame - but he also destroyed everything for me. Not only a life work as an architect and my good name, but above all my moral integrity. Condemned as a war criminal, robbed of my freedom for half a lifetime, and burdened with the permanent sense of guilt, I must in addition live in the awareness that I founded my whole existence on an error. ... So then I ask myself: would I like to fall out of history? What does a place in it mean to me, slight though it may be? If thirty-one years ago today I had been confronted with the choice of leading a quiet and respected life as city engineer of Augsburg or Gottingen, with a house in the suburbs, two or three decent buildings done a year, and vacations with the family in Hahnenklee or Norderney - if I had been offered all that or else everything that has happened, the fame and the guilt, the world capital and Spandau, together with the feeling of a life gone awry - which would I choose? Would I be prepared to pay the price all over again? My head reels when I pose this question. I scarcely dare to ask it. Certainly I cannot answer it at all.
2[May 4, 1965] Recently, in these days full of memories, I have considered how I would characterize Hitler today after the passage of twenty years. I think I am now less sure than I ever was. All reflection magnifies the difficulties, makes him more incomprehensible. Of course I have no doubts at all about the judgment of history. But I would not know how to describe the man himself. No doubt I could say that he was cruel, unjust, unapproachable, cold, capricious, self-pitying, and vulgar; and in fact he was all of those things. But at the same time he was also the exact opposite of almost all those things. He could be a solicitous paterfamilias, a generous superior, amiable, self-controlled, proud, and capable of enthusiasm for beauty and greatness. I can think of only two concepts that include all his character traits and that are the common denominator of all those many contradictory aspects: opaqueness and dishonesty. Today, in retrospect, I am completely uncertain when and where he was ever really himself, his image not distorted by playacting, tactical considerations, joy in lying. I could not even say what his feeling toward me actually was - whether he really liked me or merely thought how useful I could be to him.
3[November 30, 1952] Whatever turn my life takes in the future, whenever my name is mentioned, people will think of Hitler. I shall never have an independent existence. And sometimes I see myself as a man of seventy, children long since adult and grandchildren growing up, and wherever I go people will not ask about me but about Hitler.
#Fact
1A letter he wrote in December 1971 confirmed he had known about the Holocaust during World War II. The letter was not discovered until after his death.
2Father-in-law of Ingmar Zeisberg.
3Is portrayed by Rutger Hauer in Inside the Third Reich (1982), Herbert Knaup in Nuremberg (2000), Heino Ferch in Downfall (2004) and Sebastian Koch in Speer und er (2005).
4Was a friend of Leni Riefenstahl.
5Was interviewed by "Playboy" magazine in 1971.
6He was released from Spandau Prison in 1966, leaving Rudolf Hess as the only remaining inmate. He remained a prisoner there for another nineteen years, until he committed suicide on August 17, 1987 at the age of 93.
7Speer claims (and there is some evidence to back it up) that after being given orders to implement "Operation Nero" (a plan to destroy everything of military, industrial or agricultural value in areas of Germany not overrun by the Allies) he attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler by introducing poison gas into the Berlin bunker. He failed due to both failed nerves and the placement of a strengthened filtering system.
8He became Adolf Hitler's Minister for Armaments after being his favorite architect and designing many famous Reich buildings. At the 1945-1946 war-crimes trial of Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Speer was sentenced to 20 years in Berlin's Spandau prison for his complicity in Hitler's atrocities. Unlike his co-defendants, Speer readily accepted responsibility for crimes committed by a government in which he played a leading role.

Writer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Wie aus der Ferne2013Short letters
Inside the Third Reich1982TV Movie book

Art Department

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Der Sieg des Glaubens1933Documentary construction manager

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Last Nazi1981TV Movie documentaryHimself
Arno Breker, Portrait eines Bildhauers1980Himself
The Shock of the New1980TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
The Memory of Justice1976DocumentaryHimself
Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler1975TV MovieHimself - Armaments Minister
The World at War1973-1974TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself / Himself - Minister of Armaments / Himself - Hitler's Armaments Minister / ...
Erinnerung an einen Sommer in Berlin1972TV MovieHimself
Der Architekt1969TV Movie documentaryHimself
Nürnberg und seine Lehre1948DocumentaryHimself
Nuremberg Trials1947DocumentaryHimself
Der Sieg des Glaubens1933DocumentaryHimself

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
1945: 12 Städte, 12 Schicksale2015TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler2012TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself - Reichsminister für Bewaffnung und Munition
Geheimnisvolle Orte2012TV Series documentaryHimself
History2012TV Series documentaryHimself
Geheimnisse des 'Dritten Reichs'2011TV Series documentaryHimself
Nazi Collaborators2010TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
Hitler's Bodyguard2010TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
Nazi Hunters2010TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself - Nazi Minister of Armaments and War Production
Apocalypse - La 2ème guerre mondiale2009TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
In Europa2007TV Series documentaryHimself
Revealed2006TV Series documentaryHimself
The Rape of Europa2006DocumentaryHimself
Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial2006TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
Lost Worlds2006TV Series documentaryHimself
Hitler's War2005VideoHimself
Welthauptstadt Germania2005TV Movie documentaryHimself
War Stories with Oliver North2005TV Series documentaryHimself
Hitlers Manager2004TV Series documentaryHimself
Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall2004TV Movie documentaryHimself
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality2004TV Special documentaryHimself
Dead Men's Secrets2003TV Series documentaryHimself
Die Chronik des Nürnberger Prozesses2003TV Movie documentaryHimself - Accused
Andere Tijden2000TV Series documentaryHimself
Television Under the Swastika1999TV Movie documentaryHimself - Discusses Luitpold Arena (uncredited)
Hitler and Stalin: Twin Tyrants1999TV Movie documentaryHimself (uncredited)
Das Dritte Reich - In Farbe1998TV Movie documentaryHimself
Nazis: The Occult Conspiracy1998DocumentaryHimself (uncredited)
The Last Days1998DocumentaryHimself - Views Eiffel Tower with Hitler (uncredited)
Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War1998TV Series documentaryHimself
Rape: A Crime of War1997DocumentaryHimself - on Trial (uncredited)
The Nazis: A Warning from History1997TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
Reputations1996TV Series documentaryHimself
Der Nürnberger Prozess1996DocumentaryHimself
Hitler's Generals1996TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself
Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial1995TV Special documentaryHimself (uncredited)
The Last Days of World War II1995TV Movie documentaryHimself (unconfirmed, uncredited)
Hitler: A Profile1995TV Mini-Series documentaryHimself (uncredited)
The Champagne Safari1995DocumentaryHimself
Time Capsule: WW II - War in Europe1994DocumentaryHimself - After Capture, with Dönitz and Jodl
L'oeil de Vichy1993DocumentaryHimself
Tak zhit nelzya1990DocumentaryHimself - Nuremberg Trial (uncredited)
The Nazis: Blitzkrieg1989Video documentaryHimself
The Struggle for Democracy1989TV SeriesHimself (uncredited)
Undergångens arkitektur1989DocumentaryHimself
The World at War: The Making of the Series.1989Documentary shortHimself
Eye of the Dictator1988DocumentaryHimself (uncredited)
Babiy Yar: Lessons of History1985TV Movie documentaryHimself
Hitler, a Career1977DocumentaryHimself
Men of Our Time1963TV Series documentaryHimself
The Clouded Dawn1962DocumentaryHimself - Nuremberg Trial: Row 2, Seat 8
Verboten!1959Himself (uncredited)
The Twentieth Century1958TV Series documentaryHimself
Bis fünf nach zwölf - Adolf Hitler und das 3. Reich1953DocumentaryHimself
Crusade in Europe1949TV Series documentaryHimself
Ostatni Parteitag w Norymberdze1946Documentary shortHimself (uncredited)
War Comes to America1945DocumentaryHimself
The Battle of Britain1943DocumentaryHimself - Views Eiffel Tower with Hitler and Breker (uncredited)

Known for movies

Himself

Der Architekt (1969)
as Himself

Himself

The Shock of the New (1980)
as Himself

Writer

Inside the Third Reich (1982)
as Writer

Himself

Erinnerung an einen Sommer in Berlin (1972)
as Himself

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