Albert Speer

It is unknown who is Albert Speer as there are no surviving photographs of him.

Albert Speer was born in Germany sometime during the early 1900s. Much like his parents, Albert loved architecture, creating his first draft of the Volkshalle at just 7 years old.

Career

During The Second World War, Albert was very close to Adolf Hitler. His war records are muddy but what is known is that their relationship continued to be close until Hitler killed himself. After the war Albert decided to become an author and a professional sprinter while in Spandau prison. He created Spandau Ballet with Rudolf Hess to play in front of the other inmates at the prison. They mixed music with ballet in an attempt to convince the allies that they were reformed Nazis. Speer managed to pull this off but Hess insisted in playing the 'Horst Wessel' song as their closing number. Hess was given a full life sentence as a consequence

In 1966 Speer was released from Spandau prison. He moved to Birmingham in England to re-start the band. This new version of Spandau Ballet were known as the 'New Order Romantics'. Their song 'Blonde Frauleins on Wheels' and 'Rio (save me a berth on the U-Boat)' were ironic hits in England as people didn't pick up the code.

Retirement

Addie and a man suspected by many to be Albert. However it is most likely Bertie's father as he often took over from his son during Albert Jr's panic attacks.

Speer left the band to walk around the world. His voice had gone and no one wanted to employ an ex-friend of Hitler as an architect. Speer died in 1981 in London after over exerting himself with an inventive prostitute. The rest of Spandau Ballet refused to attend the subsequent funeral. A few years later Speer's former band member Rudolf Hess hung himself in the greenhouse inside Spandau Prison. The Germans demolished the prison so that it could not become a pilgrimage site for fans of the band. Hess' ashes were spread into the Baltic.