Ludwig Ruff (29 May 187815 August 1934) was an architect during the
National Socialist
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Na ...
regime in Germany. Born in
Dollnstein
Dollnstein is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany. The name Dollnstein has its origins in Middle High German ''"Tollunstein"''.
History
Dollnstein was first mentioned in 1007 as a tiny village named Tollenstein. The ...
, he was the father of
Franz Ruff, who would later be responsible for completing the
Nuremberg Party Congress Hall left unfinished by his father's death in
Nuremberg
Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...
, in 1934.
See also
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Nazi architecture
Nazi architecture is the architecture promoted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime from 1933 until its fall in 1945, connected with urban planning in Nazi Germany. It is characterized by three forms: a stripped neoclassicism, typified by the ...
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Congress Hall
1878 births
1934 deaths
People from Eichstätt (district)
Architects in the Nazi Party
19th-century German architects
20th-century German architects
Bavarian architects
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