Fritz Todt (September 4, 1891 – February 8, 1942) was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash during World War II.
He studied engineering in Karlsruhe and the School for Advanced Technical Studies in Munich and also completed his doctorate on “Sources of defect in the construction of tarmac and asphalt road surfaces”.
In 1933, as Germany’s 23rd Chancellor, Hitler put Todt in charge of all highway construction in Germany including that of the Reichsautobahn system, the world’s first real freeway system, Hitler and Todt liked each other from the start and Todt became an expert in the construction of things like roads, bridges, waterways, airports. He quickly plan and build a system of thousands of miles of super highways on which all freeway systems in the world are now modeled.