Albert Reich

Albert Reich (January 14, 1881, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz – April 12, 1942, Munich), was a German painter, graphic designer, draftsman and illustrator.

Albert Reich, was born to a shoemaker in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz in the Kingdom of Bavaria, then part of the German Empire.

In October 1902, he entered the Academy of Fine Arts of Munich, where he was taught by Johann Caspar Herterich, Heinrich von Zügel and Peter Halm.

With his friend Dietrich Eckart, he created the cover design for the first edition of Adolf Hitler's autobiographical manifesto: Mein Kampf.

The Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter, to which he was linked through his friend Christian Weber, celebrated him as "arguably the first graphic artist who joined the nascent National Socialist movement with pencil and brush".

[6] In 1935, he was commissioned by the cultural service of the Reichsgau (districts of Nazi Germany) to stage the 125th Oktoberfest in Munich under the slogan "Stolze Stadt – Glückliches Land" ("Proud City – Happy Country").

It was renamed after Josef Geiß, a local Social Democratic Party of Germany activist who was deported to Dachau concentration camp in 1933.