Hans Steinhoff

Hans Steinhoff 10 March 1882 Marienberg 20 April 1945 was a German film director best known for the propaganda films he made in the Nazi era Steinhoff started his career as a stage actor in the 1900s and later worked as a stage director He directed his first silent film Clothes Make the Man the adaption of a novel by Gottfried Keller in 1921 Steinhoff was a convinced Nazi and directed many propaganda films he sometimes even wore his Nazi party membership button on the film set His most notable films were perhaps Hitlerjunge Quex 1933 an influential propaganda film for the Hitler Youth and Ohm Krüger 1940 for which he won the Mussolini Cup at the 1941 Venice Film Festival On April 20 1945 during the last war days Steinhoff tried to escape from Berlin on the last flight to Madrid The plane was shot down by the Soviet Red Army and all passengers died From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia