Alois Degano

Alois Degano (3 March 1887 in Schmerold, municipality Gmund am Tegernsee; † July 26 1960 in Gmund am Tegernsee) was a German architect and Baurat. Degano studied architecture in Munich and then worked as an independent architect and master builder in Gmund am Tegernsee. About Franz Xaver Schwarz, the "Reich Treasurer of the NSDAP", for whom he had built a house in Gmund, he met Adolf Hitler at the beginning of 1933. Degano joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933 (membership number 2,942,463). After many years of working at Tegernsee, he was born in the Third Reich one of the master builders in the Führersperrgebiet Obersalzberg. His most famous building was the conversion of the Wachenfeld house into the Berghof Adolf Hitlers in Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden. Other buildings in the Third Reich were the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz (1935–1936), the Reich Chancellery Berchtesgaden (1936–1937) as well as the new building of the Reichsschule Feldafing (1937–1938) on Lake Starnberg.