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Todt, Fritz

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Todt, Fritz (1891-1942)

German engineer who was responsible for building the first autobahns (German motorways) and, in World War II, the Siegfried Line of defence along Germany's western frontier, and the Atlantic Wall.

Todt's success as minister for road construction led Nazi dictator Hitler to put him in charge of completing the Siegfried Line in 1938. His Organization Todt, formed for this task, continued constructing defences on the Atlantic Coast using forced labour until 1944. He was made minister for arms and munitions in 1940. In 1942, alarmed at the attrition of equipment on the Eastern Front, he advised Hitler to end the war with the USSR. He was killed in an air crash on the way back from this meeting.
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