Georg Pahl

Georg Pahl (20 October 1900 – 13 May 1963) was a German press photographer and journalist of the 1920s and early 1930s.

From 1923, Georg Pahl studied under with Heinrich Sanden I (born in 1877), a professional photographer who had founded the company Atlantic Photo in Berlin in 1919 (the company would change its name to Atlantic Photo-Gesellschaft mbH in 1930).

From 1919 to 1923, Hitler went essentially unphotographed, as to prevent the police from obtaining images that would help in his identification.

[note 1] Georg Pahl obtained the first images from these early years of the Party, when he recognised and photographed Hitler as he visited the Luna Park in Berlin.

Pahl's works feature prominently in the German Federal Archives.