Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, (March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981), is one of the most well-known German architects of the Modern Era, and was responsible for the designing of such buildings as the Headquarters of the European Community, and for the major reconstruction of Berlin after the Second World War. The majority of the buildings he has designed were massive feats of engineering, bigger than the majority of the buildings he based his designs on, such as the mass