Alois Degano

Alois Degano (born March 1887 in Schmerold, municipality of Gmund am Tegernsee; died 26 July 1960 in Gmund am Tegernsee ^[1] in Gmund am Tegernsee) was a German architect and building inspector.

Degano studied architecture in Munich and then worked as a freelance architect and master builder in Gmund am Tegernsee. Through Franz Xaver Schwarz, the "Reichsschatzmeister (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) ^[2][1]

After many years of working at Tegernsee,^[3] he became one of the master builders in the Obersalzberg area in the Third Reich. His best-known building was the conversion of the Haus Wachenfeld into Hitler’s Berghof^[4] 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)^[5] as well as the new building of the Reichsschule Feldafing (1937–1938) on Lake Starnberg.^[6]