Fritz Todt Professions : Engineer Born : September 4, 1891 Died : February 8, 1942 Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Fritz Todt For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. Fritz Todt accusation engineering building Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Fritz Todt factories socialist workplace The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway. Rather, the car resembles a dragon fly or any other jumping animal that moves shorter distances in straight lines and then changes its direction at different points. Fritz Todt distance men moving The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler. Fritz Todt purpose The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world). Fritz Todt construction-projects cities names For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation. As National Socialists we are dedicated to working with boldness, but also with love of the Volk and our landscape in mind. These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland. In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement. Fritz Todt engineering landscape mind The German landscape is something unique that we cannot disturb and have no right to destroy. The more densely populated our 'living space' becomes with settlements, the greater our hunger will grow for unspoilt nature. The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable... when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty; and in places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. Fritz Todt unique cities spiritual I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland. Fritz Todt effort imagine natural We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape. Fritz Todt landscape character The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty. Fritz Todt uncontrollable-urge spiritual beauty In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it. Fritz Todt uncontrollable reconstruction beauty The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Fritz Todt construction-projects socialist appearance Only one country and one system is unable to recognize our accomplishments: Russia. They make the lying claim that our road construction program is only on paper. Fritz Todt road construction russia country Similar Authors Alan Mulally engineer Bruce White engineer Augustin-Jean Fresnel engineer Arthur Rudolph engineer Aron Ralston engineer Anousheh Ansari engineer All Authors
