Führer city
A Führer city, or Führerstadt in German, was a status given to five German cities in 1937 by Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Nazi Germany. The status was based on Hitler's vision of undertaking gigantic urban transformation projects in these cities, and executed by German architects including Albert Speer, Paul Ludwig Troost, German Bestelmeyer, Konstanty Gutschow, Hermann Giesler, Leonhard Gall and Paul Otto August Baumgarten. More modest reconstruction projects were to take place in thirty-five other cities, although some sources assert this number was as high as fifty. These plans were however not realised for the  greater part because of the onset of the Second World War, although construction continued to take place even in wartime circumstances at Hitler's insistence. After the Battle for France in 1940, Hitler ordered that the architectural reshaping of these cities was to be completed by 1950, and should represent the magnitude of the German victories in Western Europe. Designated Führer cities. The five Führer cities were: Other major building projects. In addition to the five cities decreed, there were plans to begin similar building projects in Königsberg, Oldenburg, Posen, Saarbrücken and Wewelsburg. At the influence of the Gauleiters, Hitler  also greatly increased the number of cities that were slated for reconstruction by twenty-six additional ones not much later. According to a letter dated 19 February 1941 by Albert Speer to the National Socialist Party Treasurer, these were: References. Notes Bibliography