Fritz Todt ([fʁɪt͡s toːt]; 4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German construction engineer and senior figure of the Nazi Party.

In his 1969 memoir, Albert Speer asserted that Adolf Hitler would never have appointed him Third Reich minister of armaments had not his predecessor in that post, acclaimed engineering genius Dr. Fritz Todt, been killed in a still unexplained airplane crash in early 1942.

Organisation Todt (OT; [ʔɔʁɡanizaˈtsi̯oːn toːt]) was a civil and military engineering organisation in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, named for its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior member of the Nazi Party.

Fritz Todt was an German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He was born in Pforzheim, Germany on September 4, 1891, the son of a small factory owner. He studied engineering in Karlsruhe and the School for Advanced Technical Studies in Munich.

Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 in Pforzheim,Grand Duchy Of Baden, Germany– 8 February 1942 in Kętrzyn,East Prussia, Germany) was a German Engineer and Senior Nazi and was responsible for the German roadworks. [1]

ww2dbase A brilliant engineer, World War One veteran, Dr. Fritz Todt, was an early recruit to the Nazi party. He had joined the party in 1923, and, since June 1933, as Inspector-General of German Roads, had devised the construction of Germany's planned 6,000-kilometer new Autobahn road network.

2021年12月12日 · The death of Fritz Todt, whose pessimism about victory in the East against Stalin was well known, prompted speculation that he had been assassinated, perhaps by the SS, but no documentary evidence exists to support the theory.