Rudolf Wolters
Rudolf Wolters was a German architect and government official. He was known for his longtime association with fellow architect and Third Reich official Albert Speer. Wolters received the many papers which were smuggled out of Spandau Prison for Speer while he was imprisoned there, and kept them for him until Speer was released in 1966. Wolter was involved in the reconstruction of West Germany following World War Two.
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Rudolf Wolters was a German architect and government official. He was known for his longtime association with fellow architect and Third Reich official Albert Speer. Wolters received the many papers which were smuggled out of Spandau Prison for Speer while he was imprisoned there, and kept them for him until Speer was released in 1966. After Speer’s release, the friendship slowly collapsed, Wolters objecting strongly to Speer’s blaming of Hitler and other Nazis for the Holocaust and World War II. The two men saw nothing of each other in the decade before Speer died in 1981, and Wolters wrote several architectural books during the war, as well as a biography of Speers. Wolter was involved in the reconstruction of West Germany following World War Two, rebuilding his hometown of Coesfeld among many other projects. He died at the age of 89 in Berlin, Germany, on September 25, 1998. He is buried in the Schlossberg neighborhood of Berlin, next to his wife, the former Eva Speer, who he married in 1945. He had a son, Hans Wolters, and a daughter, Eva Wolters-Wolters, who was married to the late Joachim Schulte. He also had a step-son, Hans-Joachim Wolters Jr., who is also a well-known German architect. The couple had two children, Michael Wolters and Eva Wolter-Wolsch, who were married in 2000. The family lived in the town of Wiesbaden, near Berlin, and later moved to Berlin, where Wolters worked for the Reichsbahn.
In 1937, Speer hired Wolters as a department head, and he soon took major responsibility for Hitler’s plan for the large scale reconstruction of Berlin. In 1936, he informed the dictator that Speer would soon appoint him as General Inspector of the Reichbau Building or Inspector General of the Capital Building or General Capital Building. In 1938, he was appointed as an unpaid inspector of the Trans-Siberian Railway’s urban planning division. In 1939, he became the first German official to serve in the post of Inspector General for the Urban Planning Division. In 1940, he resigned from his post to take up a position with the German Federal Railways Authority. In 1941, he joined the German Army as an officer in charge of the construction of the Berlin Wall. He retired from the Army in 1945, and in 1946 he became an official in the German Ministry of Railways. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked as an inspector for the German National Railways in Berlin. He later became the head of the German Railways’ urban planning department. In 1961, he retired from his position in Berlin to become an honorary member of the Federal Railways Board. In 1968, he moved to the Reichsbahn to work for the Berlin City Council as an advisor on urban planning. In 1969, he took up a post as an assistant to the Mayor of Berlin for the first time. In 1970, he returned to the Berlin city council as an adviser to the mayor.
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