Reich Chancellery Eagle
The gilded Parteiadler which once adorned the very entrance to Adolf Hitler’s private living quarters in the Old Reich Chancellery (not to be confused with the New Reich Chancellery) in Berlin. Plaster or plaster composite casting, measuring 28 inches wide, 12 inches tall and 3 inches in depth at the swastika wreath. Expertly gilded, it speaks of the importance of those who worked and resided beyond. The eagle originally rested upon a protruding base atop a doorsill, as did other such eagles in both chancelleries, and the bottom of the wreath is slightly scraped from its movement against the base when removed. The eagle was removed from above Hitler’s bedroom doors by G.I. Marion Bowes, who then gave the eagle to fellow veteran August Richter shortly after the war. After passing through several hands over the following decades, the eagle reappeared in 1996, this time offered by prestigious auctioneers William J. Jenack in Chester, New York and finally acquired by our gallery in 2022.
Hitler had commented that Bismarck’s Old Chancellery was “fit for a soap company” and not suitable as headquarters of a Greater German Reich. It nevertheless remained his official residence, where Hitler lived in the so-called Führerwohnung (Leader apartment). The Old and New Chancellery shared a large garden with the underground Führerbunker beneath, where Hitler ultimately committed suicide at the end of April 1945. It is believed that there were only twelve such wall-mounted eagles in and around both chancelleries, with examples today thought to only exist in the Imperial War Museum and Moscow’s Museum of the Great Patriotic War,
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The gilded Parteiadler which once adorned the very entrance to Adolf Hitler’s private living quarters in the Old Reich Chancellery (not to be confused with the New Reich Chancellery) in Berlin. Plaster or plaster composite casting, measuring 28 inches wide, 12 inches tall and 3 inches in depth at the swastika wreath. Expertly gilded, it speaks of the importance of those who worked and resided beyond. The eagle originally rested upon a protruding base atop a doorsill, as did other such eagles in both chancelleries, and the bottom of the wreath is slightly scraped from its movement against the base when removed. The eagle was removed from above Hitler’s bedroom doors by G.I. Marion Bowes, who then gave the eagle to fellow veteran August Richter shortly after the war. After passing through several hands over the following decades, the eagle reappeared in 1996, this time offered by prestigious auctioneers William J. Jenack in Chester, New York and finally acquired by our gallery in 2022.
Hitler had commented that Bismarck’s Old Chancellery was “fit for a soap company” and not suitable as headquarters of a Greater German Reich. It nevertheless remained his official residence, where Hitler lived in the so-called Führerwohnung (Leader apartment). The Old and New Chancellery shared a large garden with the underground Führerbunker beneath, where Hitler ultimately committed suicide at the end of April 1945. It is believed that there were only twelve such wall-mounted eagles in and around both chancelleries, with examples today thought to only exist in the Imperial War Museum and Moscow’s Museum of the Great Patriotic War,
