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Eugen Hönig (9 March 1873,
Eugen Hönig (9 March 1873, Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern (; Palatinate German: ''Lautre'') is a city in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfur ...
, Kingdom of Bavaria
The Kingdom of Bavaria (german: Königreich Bayern; ; spelled ''Baiern'' until 1825) was a German state that succeeded the former Electorate of Bavaria in 1805 and continued to exist until 1918. With the unification of Germany into the German E ...
– 24 June 1945) was an architect in Nazi Germany. He was the inaugural president of the Reich Chamber of Culture.Morowitz, Laura (2015). Art of Deception. ''Art History (journal), Art History'' 38 (5): 987–90
In 1931 Hönig, along with other German architects such as Alexander von Senger, Konrad Nonn, German Bestelmeyer and especially Paul Schultze-Naumburg were deputized in the Nazi campaign against modern architecture, in a para-governmental propaganda unit called the Kampfbund deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure (KDAI). Through the pages of Völkischer Beobachter these architects actively attacked the modern style in openly racist and political tones, placing much of the blame on members of the architectural group The Ring, calling Walter Gropius an "elegant salon-bolshevist", and calling the Bauhaus "the cathedral of Marxism".
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* Nazi architecture 1873 births 1945 deaths People from Kaiserslautern People from the Palatinate (region) Architects in the Nazi Party 20th-century German architects Nazi Party politicians Militant League for German Culture members Technical University of Munich alumni 19th-century German architects {{Germany-architect-stub