Describe the rise to prominence of the personality you have studied (10 marks) Albert Speer’s rise to prominence took place between 1931 and 1946, beginning with him joining the Nazi Party and his rise ending with his condemnation at the Nuremberg trials, however, he has remained prominent to today as a result of his work for the Nazi Part and for the manner in which he conducted himself at his trial. Speer’s decision to join the Nazi Party did not lead to his immediate, fully-fledged involvement in party affairs. Speer’s part work extended no further than driving party members around to meetings and rallies. However, Speer’s fortunes changed when he made the acquaintance of Karl Hanke. Hanke gave Speer the job of redecorating the headquarters of a district branch of the Nazi Party, Grunewald Villa.
During this event Speer and Hitler became close friends and when Troost died in 1934, Speer filled his position as the Party’s Chief Architect. The most prestigious of Speer architectural assignments was the Germania Project of 1937. The plan was based on Hitler’s perception that Germany was the most powerful country in the world. With this assignment, he was named First Architect of the Reich. The assignment involved the design of a new Reich Chancellery and the destruction of thousands of Jewish homes.
Then, Rillieux father send him to Paris best school (L'Ecole) were there were no racial restrictions, to study engineering. On Paris in L'Ecole the school he was attending he turned out to be a brilliant student, he showed an extraordinary skill on engineering, making his dad really proud. At the age of twenty-four he became a instructor of applied mechanics on the same school he studied in, also making him the youngest teacher there. Then in 1830 he published a series of papers on steam-engine work and steam economy that created favorable attention in scientific circle all over Europe. He also developed the theory of
Albert Speer was with no uncertainty a significant figure and member within the Nationalist Socialist Party who contributed a noteworthy amount to Nazi ideology and practice. His influence however within the Nazi Party grew as time went on holding key positions such as Hitler's architect, Head of German Labour Front and Minister for Armaments and Munitions from 8 February 1942 among other tasks. At this position Speer had substantial power and was also said to be the second most powerful man in the Third Reich after Hitler. In 1934 Speer became the ˜First Architect of the Reich,' before this however he had menial tasks such as renovating the Gauhaus in Berlin and organising a backdrop for the May Day rally at the Templehof airfield in Berlin
While visiting America, Einstein was offered a job as a professor at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. This is where he decided to live permanently. Although Albert missed Germany, he was happy he had a job and a safe place to live away from the Nazis. Before Albert came to America, he lived in Switzerland, and worked for the Swiss Patent Office. There, he published five papers on the Special Theory of Relativity and a short book on the General Theory of Relativity.
Who was this Oscar Schindler who started by earning millions of German marks through exploitation of slave workers and ended by spending his last pfennig and risking his life to save "his" 1,200 Schindler Jews from Hitler´s death camps? Oscar Schindler was born on April 28th, 1908, in Zwittau in Czechoslovakia in a home imbued with his parents` deep piety. The nearest neighbours were a Jewish Rabbi family, and the two sons became Oscar`s best friends. The family was one of the richest and most prominent in Zwittau, but as a result of the deep economic depression of the 1930s, the family firm became bankrupt Oscar Schindler quickly got on good terms with the local Gestapo chiefs and rejoices here over life in the beginning of the 1940s - he was a womanisor and heavy drinker, but continually risked his life to save his Schindler Jews from the deathcamps. Schindler was recruited by the German Intelligence Agency to collect information about Poles and was highly esteemed for his efforts - a fact that was to play a decisive role later in the war for Schindler, when he needed all his
Léon Walras (16 December 1834 - 5 January 1910) Biography Marie-Ésprit Léon Walras was born in Évreux, France (near Montreux, Switzerland) on December 16th, 1834. Walras was the son of the French proto-marginalist, economist and schoolteacher, Antonie-Auguste Walras, who encouraged his son to pursue economics with a particular emphasis on mathematics. Walras enrolled in the Paris School of Mine but grew tired of engineering. He spent most of his early life in Paris as a novelist and art critic (had quite a Bohemian youth). He also tried careers as a bank manager, journalist, romantic novelist and a clerk at a railway company, administrator of cooperative bank before turning to economics .In that scientific discipline Walras claimed to have found “pleasures and joys like those that religion provides to the faithful.” In 1858, one evening while the two were out walking, his father situated the postulate in Léon that to create a scientific theory of economics one would need to use differential calculus to derive a ‘science of economic forces, analogous to the science of astronomical forces’.
Born in 1902, Carl Rogers was brought up in a very religious family who believed in the virtues of hard work. At the age of twelve, his family bought a farm – Rogers believed one of their reasons for doing so to remove the adolescents of the family from the temptations of suburban life. It was in this new farm environment that Rogers demonstrated much aptitude and interest in science, including scientific controls. Rogers early years in college opened up his understanding of the world. Here, Rogers was given the opportunity to travel to China, see the impact World War II had on French German relations (they hated one another, despite each being a likeable individual), was forced to expand his thinking outside the religious beliefs his
His greatest passion was his work, but he was also an avid sailor and skillful violinist. Einstein’s contributions to science and physics brought him great joy as well as fame and notoriety, but alienated him from his family in the process. Born on March 14, 1879 to a simple Jewish family in Ulm, Germany, Einstein initially had an
The foundational assumption is that most emotional and behavioral reactions are learned and can therefore, be unlearned. The most interesting of all psychologists throughout history is Erik Erikson. Erik Erikson (1902-1994), was born in Frankfurt, Germany and studied psychology under Anna Freud (Sigmund Freud's daughter) at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. He did not desire the environment that formal schooling produced, so as an alternative to going to college he traveled around Europe, keeping a diary of his experiences. This lasted for a year and he returned to Germany and enrolled in art school.