Alois Degano (born March 1887 in Schmerold, municipality of Gmund am Tegernsee; died 26 July 1960 in Gmund am Tegernsee Christa Schroeder: He was my boss, pp. 373–374 in Gmund am Tegernsee) was a German architect and building inspector.
Degano studied architecture in Munich and then worked as a freelance architect and master builder in Gmund am Tegernsee. Through Franz Xaver Schwarz, the "Reichsschatzmeister (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) Bundesarchiv R 9361-IX FILE/5910295
After many years of working at Tegernsee, (PDF; 2.1 MB) tegernseer-tal-verlag.de, Country house in Holz, architect Baurat A. Degano he became one of the master builders in the Obersalzberg area in the Third Reich. His best-known building was the conversion of the Haus Wachenfeld into Hitler’s BerghofBirgit Schwarz: Genius Delusion: Hitler and Art. Böhlau, 2009, section The Berghof as a Place of Art, p. 155. 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)The rediscovered second Reich Chancellery near Berchtesgaden. Der Spiegel, issue 33/1996. as well as the new building of the Reichsschule Feldafing (1937–1938) on Lake Starnberg.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
References
External links Alois Degano in the database of the Deutsche Fotothek