Erich Schelling

In 1933 and 1934, Schelling joined several Nazi organizations, notably the Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary organization and the Reich Chamber of Culture (in its Reich Chamber of Fine Arts subdivision), which had just been founded to repress all art that did not support Nazi ideals.

He remained active in all of these organizations until the Nazi state fell in 1945, and was promoted in the SA three times.

His first major commission was the conversion of a Karlsruhe building slated to be a Nazi publishing house in 1939.

From 1955 to his death, he supervised the development of Karlsruhe's nuclear research centre, including the research reactor, the central administrative building, the college of nuclear technology, the information centre, the security headquarter and a variety of workshops and laboratories.

Some of them, such as the Schwarzwaldhalle, the Nancyhalle, the Chamber of Crafts and Trades and the State Insurance Institute, are listed as cultural monuments.