The Political career of Albert Speer refers to various political and government appointments held by Albert Speer

Albert Speer

Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...

 between 1931 and 1945 under the authority of Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

 and the Nazi Party.

Nazi Party Positions

• Member, National Socialist Motor Corps
  National Socialist Motor Corps
  The National Socialist Motor Corps , also known as the National Socialist Drivers Corps, was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that existed from 1931 to 1945. The group was a successor organization to the older National Socialist Automobile Corps, which had existed since the beginning...
  
  : 1931
• Commissioner for the Artistic and Technical Presentation of Party Rallies and Demonstrations: 1933
• Department Chief, German Labor Front: 1934
• Chief, NSDAP Directorate for Technical Matters: 1942

From 1934 to 1939, Speer was often referred to as "First Architect of the Reich", however this was mainly a title given to him by Hitler and not an actual political position within the Nazi Party or German government.

Government Positions

• General Building Inspector for the Reich Capitol: 1937
• Reich Minister for Weapons, Munitions, and Armaments: 1942

In 1943, under his authority as Reich Minister of Armaments, Speer also became the Director of Organisation Todt

Organisation Todt

The Todt Organisation, was a Third Reich civil and military engineering group in Germany named after its founder, Fritz Todt, an engineer and senior Nazi figure...

. The standard uniform Speer wore during the later half of World War II was an insignia-less Nazi Party brown jacket, with an "Org Todt" armband.

Political Ranks

• Mitglieder: 1931
• Amtsleiter
  Amtsleiter
  Amtsleiter was a Nazi Party political rank which existed between 1933 and 1938. The rank was created as a "catch all" political staff position across all levels of the Nazi Party and encompassed a wide array of duties and responsibilities.A special rank of Hauptamtsleiter existed on the...
  
   des Reichsleitung: 1934
• Hauptamtsleiter des Reichsleitung: 1935
• Dienstleiter: 1939
• Hauptdienstleiter: 1941
• Befehlsleiter
  Befehlsleiter
  Befehlsleiter was a Nazi Party political rank of Nazi Germany which existed between 1939 and 1945. Divided into three levels the rank was the highest possible paramilitary political rank, except for that of Gauleiter and Reichsleiter which were outside the regular promotion tier and available only...
  
  : 1942
• Oberbefehlsleiter: 1944

Awards and Decorations

• Golden Party Badge
  Golden Party Badge
  The Golden Party Badge was a special badge of the Nazi Party. The first 100,000 members who had joined and had uninterrupted service in the Party were given the right to wear it...
  
  
• Golden Hitler Youth Badge (with Oak Leaves)
• Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross
  War Merit Cross
  The War Merit Cross was a decoration of Nazi Germany during the Second World War, which could be awarded to civilians as well as military personnel...
  
  
• NSDAP Long Service Award
• Honour Chevron for the Old Guard
  Honour Chevron for the Old Guard
  The Honour Chevron for the Old Guard, or in German Ehrenwinkel für Alte Kämpfer, was a political decoration of the Nazi Party in Germany. It was authorised in February 1934, as a silver chevron to be worn on the upper right arm, by all members of the SS, who had joined the SS, NSDAP or any other...
  
  

Source

• "Nuremberg Trial Transcripts", One Hundred and Sixtieth Day (Friday, June 21, 1946), Part 1 of 12 (Testimony and Examination of Albert Speer)
• Speer, Albert, Inside the Third Reich, Macmillan (New York and Toronto), 1970
• Encyclopedia of the Third Reich
  Encyclopedia of the Third Reich
  The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich is a two-volume text edited by Christian Zenter and Friedemann Bedürftig.The Encyclopedia of Third Reich is considered one of the leading source materials for information about Nazi Germany and the reign of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers...
  
  , Zentner, Christian Ed; Bedürftig, Friedemann Ed (1985)