Third Reich Adolf Hitler: Fish Serving Knife from the Silverware of the Old Reich Chancellery
Circa 1935. From the Old Reich Chancellery. The handle features a relief national eagle with decorative border. Reverse stamped “Bruckmann” and “90” for the fine silver overlay, length 27.9 cm. Minor signs of use, condition 2.
This tableware was in use in the Old Reich Chancellery as well as in German embassies abroad.
We were able to acquire a small remaining stock from U.S. war spoils.
The canteen of the Reich Chancellery was under the direction of Arthur Kannenberg (born February 23, 1896 in Charlottenburg; died January 26, 1963 in Düsseldorf). Kannenberg was Adolf Hitler's house intendant. Kannenberg completed the Werdersche Oberrealschule in Berlin with a secondary school certificate and began an apprenticeship in 1912 in his father Oskar Kannenberg's gastronomic establishment. From 1915 he served in Telegraph Battalion I and was discharged in 1918 as a Gefreiter (lance corporal). From 1924 he managed his father's establishments, the Restaurant Kannenberg, Hotel Stadt Berlin, and the excursion restaurant Onkel Toms Hütte located in Grunewald, which went bankrupt in 1930.
As manager of Pfuhl's wine and beer taverns, where prominent Nazi figures such as Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring also frequented, he met Hitler, who offered him the management of the casino of the party headquarters Braunes Haus in Munich. He took up this position in 1931. Subsequently, he was also assigned management of the canteen of the NSDAP Reich Leadership School on Schwanthaler Strasse.
After Hitler became Reich Chancellor in 1933, Kannenberg became house intendant in the Reich Chancellery. He organized the operations of the Führer's household. This included particularly the hiring of personnel, procurement of food and beverages, and preparation of menus, but also the organization of catering at state receptions both in the Reich Chancellery and occasionally at the Berghof; during the war he then served at the Führer Headquarters in the Wolfsschanze and finally in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.
In May 1945 he was interned by the Americans and released on July 25, 1946.
Many pieces from the Reich Chancellery were popular souvenirs of the occupation troops after the war, but many Berliners also restocked their often bombed-out households with the remains of the Reich Chancellery.
This tableware was in use in the Old Reich Chancellery as well as in German embassies abroad.
We were able to acquire a small remaining stock from U.S. war spoils.
The canteen of the Reich Chancellery was under the direction of Arthur Kannenberg (born February 23, 1896 in Charlottenburg; died January 26, 1963 in Düsseldorf). Kannenberg was Adolf Hitler's house intendant. Kannenberg completed the Werdersche Oberrealschule in Berlin with a secondary school certificate and began an apprenticeship in 1912 in his father Oskar Kannenberg's gastronomic establishment. From 1915 he served in Telegraph Battalion I and was discharged in 1918 as a Gefreiter (lance corporal). From 1924 he managed his father's establishments, the Restaurant Kannenberg, Hotel Stadt Berlin, and the excursion restaurant Onkel Toms Hütte located in Grunewald, which went bankrupt in 1930.
As manager of Pfuhl's wine and beer taverns, where prominent Nazi figures such as Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring also frequented, he met Hitler, who offered him the management of the casino of the party headquarters Braunes Haus in Munich. He took up this position in 1931. Subsequently, he was also assigned management of the canteen of the NSDAP Reich Leadership School on Schwanthaler Strasse.
After Hitler became Reich Chancellor in 1933, Kannenberg became house intendant in the Reich Chancellery. He organized the operations of the Führer's household. This included particularly the hiring of personnel, procurement of food and beverages, and preparation of menus, but also the organization of catering at state receptions both in the Reich Chancellery and occasionally at the Berghof; during the war he then served at the Führer Headquarters in the Wolfsschanze and finally in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.
In May 1945 he was interned by the Americans and released on July 25, 1946.
Many pieces from the Reich Chancellery were popular souvenirs of the occupation troops after the war, but many Berliners also restocked their often bombed-out households with the remains of the Reich Chancellery.
