Roderich Fick (16 November 1886 – 13 July 1955) was a German

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most prominent during the

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regime. Fick became professor at the Munich Technical University in 1935, designed the Munich residence of

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in 1936, joined the NSDAP in 1937, and thereby secured Nazi projects such as various buildings at

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complex and such as SS barracks. Fick also was given the task of redesigning

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. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the

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. After the war, Fick was officially classified as a

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, a 'fellow traveller', a person passively complicit in Nazi crimes. Fick participated in the reconstruction of Linz, and retired to practice in

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. His first wife died on 2 October 1938; in 1948, he married Catharina Büscher, 28 years his junior. His daughter, Friedrike, was born in 1950.

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1886 births 1955 deaths 20th-century German architects People from Würzburg People from the Kingdom of Bavaria Academic staff of the Technical University of Munich Bavarian architects Architects in the Nazi Party Olympic competitors in art competitions {{Germany-architect-stub

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