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Rudolf Wolters

1903 - 1983

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Rudolf Wolters (3 August 1903 – 7 January 1983) was a German architect and government official, known for his longtime association with fellow architect and Third Reich official Albert Speer. A friend and subordinate of 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, and they saw nothing of each other in the decade before Speer's death in 1981. Wolters, who was born to a Catholic middle-class family in the northern German town of Coesfeld, obtained his degree and doctorate in architecture from the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin), forging a close friendship with Speer while a student. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rudolf Wolters is the 379th most popular architect (down from 367th in 2019), the 4,268th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,125th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Rudolf Wolters ranks 379 out of 518. Before him are Fernand de Montigny, Wang Shu, Daniel Burnham, John Douglas, Lars Sonck, and Kunio Maekawa. After him are Herman Sörgel, Martin Gropius, Juan de Villanueva, Walter Burley Griffin, Arturo Soria y Mata, and Georges Candilis.

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Among people born in 1903, Rudolf Wolters ranks 220. Before him are René Wellek, Bernard Leene, Anatoly Alexandrov, Oleg Losev, Natallia Arsiennieva, and Josefina Pla. After him are Jack Oakie, Nils Ramm, Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Alfredo Copello, Gioacchino Colombo, and Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1983, Rudolf Wolters ranks 161. Before him are George Hodgson, Diego Abad de Santillán, Gyula Illyés, Paavo Johansson, Émile Veinante, and Miquel Crusafont i Pairó. After him are Marguerite Broquedis, Higinio Morínigo, Nils Engdahl, Valentín González, Jānis Ivanovs, and Bill Brandt.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rudolf Wolters ranks 4,270 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1849), Elly Ney (1882), Gottlieb von Jagow (1863), Uwe Boll (1965), Ilse Steppat (1917), and Susanne Lothar (1960). After him are Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa (1818), Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), Cuno Hoffmeister (1892), Franz Josef Jung (1949), Herman Sörgel (1885), and Erwin Stresemann (1889).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Rudolf Wolters ranks 41. Before him are Ernst May (1886), Paul Wallot (1841), Heinrich Tessenow (1876), Carl Humann (1839), Albert Kahn (1869), and Peter Joseph Lenné (1789). After him are Herman Sörgel (1885), Martin Gropius (1824), Wilhelm Kreis (1873), Dankmar Adler (1844), Hermann Bollé (1845), and Friedrich Ludwig Persius (1803).

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