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He was the founder of Organisation Todt (OT), a military-engineering organisation that supplied German industry with forced labour, and served as Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition in Nazi Germany early in World War II, directing the entire German wartime military economy from that position.
A plane crash claimed the life of Dr. Fritz Todt, Hitler’s minister of armaments, paving the way for the appointment of Albert Speer.
Fritz Todt war ein deutscher Bauingenieur und SA-Obergruppenführer. Während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus war er zunächst Generalinspektor für das Straßenwesen, ab 1940 Reichsminister für Bewaffnung und Munition. Er leitete unter anderem den Bau der Reichsautobahnen. Nach ihm war die 1938 gegründete und militärisch organisierte ...
Oct 27, 2023 · Building on his success with the Westwall construction, Fritz Todt accumulated increasing technocratic authority from 1939. He took charge of the construction industry, became head of the German Engineering Association, and was named Minister for Armament and...
The Germans employed Fritz Todt, the engineer who had designed the West Wall, and thousands of impressed labourers to construct permanent fortifications along the Belgian and French coasts facing the English Channel; this was the Atlantic Wall.
Oct 27, 2023 · Fritz Todt came to exemplify the Nazi engineer. An early and loyal National Socialist, Todt offered his engineering expertise to the NSBDT, leading to his being named Inspector General for German Highways in 1933. Todt’s appointment was the model for...
Fritz Todt was killed when on 9th February 1942, the plane he was on exploded soon after taking off for Munich. He was replaced as Minister of Munitions by Albert Speer who had at the last moment cancelled flying on the same plane as Todt.
Fritz Todt was a German construction engineer and senior figure of the Nazi Party. He was the founder of Organisation Todt (OT), a military-engineering organisation that supplied German industry with forced labour, and served as Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition in Nazi Germany early in World War II, directing the entire German ...
Organisation Todt (OT; [ʔɔʁɡanizaˈtsi̯oːn toːt]) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party.
Fritz Todt was an German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He was born in Pforzheim, Germany on September 4, 1891, the son of a small factory owner. He studied engineering in Karlsruhe and the School for Advanced Technical Studies in Munich.
