Hans Klüppelberg

During this time, a lifelong fatherly friendship develops between the two men In 1924, Klüppelberg himself began studying architecture at the University of Hanover, where he completed his main state examination in 1928.

[1] In 1939, the year World War II began, Klüppelberg was conscripted into service as an employee at the Heeresbauamt Hannover, but was able to avoid this job after a successful application to the UFA film company in Babelsberg.

During these years under the Nazi regime, Klüppelberg secretly delegated various planning tasks to his former mentor, the architect Adolf Falke, who had in the meantime been banned from the profession and was therefore forced to remain inactive.

Although this transfer of work was not visible to the public, the two men were always in danger of being exposed and politically punished by the Nazi regime.

[1] Klüppelberg soon also worked as a member of the "expert-(building maintenance) advisory board" of the state capital of Hanover.