Alexander von Senger

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Alexander von Senger was a German architect under Adolf Hitler.

In 1911, van Senger was given the commission for the "Altbau", a landmark commercial building near Zürich. He was already well-known as a conservative architect. Roderich Fick worked in his Zürich office from 1910 through 1912. In 1931 Senger, along with other German architects such as Eugen Honig, Konrad Nonn, German Bestelmeyer and especially Paul Schultze-Naumburg were deputized in the National Socialist fight against modern architecture, in a para-governmental propaganda unit called the Kampfbund deutscher Architekten und Ingenieure (KDAI). Through the pages of Völkischer Beobachter these architects actively attacked the modern style in openly racist and political tones, placing much of the blame on members of the architectural group The Ring, calling Walter Gropius an "elegant salon-bolshevist", and calling the Bauhaus "the cathedral of Marxism".

These political connections helped Senger into a professorship at the Technical Hochschule in Munich when increasing political pressure forced out architect Robert Vorhoelzer, who had made the cultural error of modernism in several Bavarian post offices.