Albert Speer Early Life:
Albert Speer was born in 1905 in Mannheim Germany. His father was a successful architect. Albert Speer left school with impressive results in his exams and he considered a career in mathematics after school. His father was able to talk him out of and he was persuaded to take up architecture and he would then follow the in the steps of his father. In 1923 he began his architectural studies at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe. He then transferred to Munich to complete his studies and he qualified as an architect in 1927.
Albert Speer seemed to have no interest what so ever in politics in his early life but he did admit that the French occupation of the Ruhr stirred his sense of nationalism and he felt very German and motivated. After his graduation as an architect in 1927 he began to work as Professor Heinrich Tessenow's assistant.
Albert Speer seemed to have no interest what so ever in politics in his early life but he did admit that the French occupation of the Ruhr stirred his sense of nationalism and he felt very German and motivated. After his graduation as an architect in 1927 he began to work as Professor Heinrich Tessenow's assistant.
Introduction to Nazism:
Many of the students at the University of Berlin where Albert Speer worked supported and sided with the Nazi movement. He was soon persuaded by people at the University to attend a speech given by Adolf Hitler to the students of the Institute of Technology and the University of Berlin in December of 1930. Albert Speer was carried away by the enthusiasm and emotion generated and delivered by Hitler's words, Speer like so many others of the time had fallen under the spell of Hitler and his Nazi's and in March of 1931 he joined the Nazi Party.