*** **-designed Germany after WW2?

[Kimbles20]

Hi,

I am currently researching my family tree and me mum has told me that my great great great grandfather was resonsible for redisigning germany after WW2. Can anyone tell me the name of this man or a website that can provide me with some information please? Thanks in advance

Kim

[gary baldy]

Have you not got more information than that? Was he an architect, a soldier, a politician?
I doubt one man was responsible for the redesigning of the whole of Germany.
I know architects were employed by the British to offer advice on post war reconstruction but only in very small numbers and only on speific projects. It was mainly up to the armed forces to co ordinate the rebuilding of essential services such as railways, electricity etc. The Americans offered huge amounts of money in the Marshall Plan but that was mainly for economic rebuilding.
I think your mum might be exaggerating a bit. I am interested to know more about this though. Your relative could have either been an architect or an engineer and he may well have helped do some of the work but Germany was divided up after the war and was left to form its own government agencies to reconstruct so your relative could well have advised them.
Intriguing but as i said i dont think there was one single person responsible (although i would be happy to be proved wrong!)

[CheekyChops]

If you are reasearching your family tree then you are going the wrong way about it by trying to jump straight to your great great great grandfather.

You need to work backwards starting with yourself, then get your parent's details, their birth certificates will give you your grandparents names, find their certificates and get your great grandparents details and so on.

You will eventually arrive at the names of your great great great grandparents and once you have the names, you could try googling the men to see if any appear on sites relating to Germany.

[bernardo]

Your g-g-g-grandfather was 5 generations ago - that doesn't sound like the right time for after WW2. Perhaps you put in a great or two too many? Or are you thinking of a different war?

[Kimbles20]

Thank you for your help,

Gary baldy, you could be right - I did think that perhaps he may have been an architect who worked on and advised on the re-design of Germany rather than doing the whole thing himself - that would have been alot of work for one man!

I am trying to work up to that generation starting with myself but as my mum mentioned it I just thought I would ask. The problem I am having is that I only have 1 grandparent left, my grandfathers all died before I was born except the one who left my grandmother before I was born, never knew where he went but my dad found out in 2001 that my grandfather had moved to salisbury and commit suicide in 1999.

I must admit I have only just started researching my family tree but my family do not seem to have many Birth/Marriage/Death certificates or info which is proving a little difficult - still, I will persevere!

bernardo is correct, I added an extra 'great', getting carried away!

Thanks Again

[gary baldy]

I am interested in this because as part of my Masters Degree i did some research into an architect who, during the war, helped the air force to devise the best ways of bombing German cities. After the war, ironically, he was asked to help rebuild because he had learned so much about German buildings by trying to flatten them!
You could try RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) but a lot of the work you are talking about was classsified information and i had to rely on second hand information.
I think finding his name out would help considerably!
Good luck and i'm soory i cant help more as much as i would like to.

[jno]

Individuals will tell you they went off to war and licked Hitler, so I guess individuals may claim slightly jokingly to have redesigned Germany, knowing they were were just one among many. But that does leave wide open the question of what work he would actually have been doing.