Heinrich Hoffmann Photo Gallery

These photographs are all from one photo session that took place in early 1925 inside Adolf Hitler’s apartment at Thierschstraße 41 in Munich. A couple of these also include Hitler’s German Shepherd Prinz. It was easy to put these together as a complete set by noticing the tiny bit of white handkerchief peaking out of… read more

This first group of portraits of Adolf Hitler range from late 1923, around the time of the Beer Hall Putsch, to just after he had served 264 days of his five-year sentence in Landsberg Prison from 1 April to 20 December 1924. Upon his release Hitler swiftly reorganized and re-founded the Nazi Party on 27… read more

These photographs span almost the entire decade of the 1920’s, approximately 1923-1929. Adolf Hitler strictly controlled his public image and would have Hoffmann photograph him in any new suit before he would ever wear it out in public. These must have been very much to his liking as these portraits were reproduced quite frequently on… read more

This group of photographs ranges from the years 1924 to 1929. I’ve discovered that the last few in this set are not Hoffmann photos, but I thought they went well with this particular portrait session that took place in Hoffmann’s Munich studio in July 1926. My other two posts in the “Hitler in Lederhosen” series,… read more

So far I have found 18 portraits in this particular photo series, all taken in Hoffmann’s Munich studio in August of 1927. There is also an earlier portrait series of Adolf Hitler in Lederhosen from 1926, and yet another set taken outdoors (from Springtime of this same year) that I have posted separately. I thought… read more

This is another session of photographs taken early in the Spring of 1927. I’ve managed to track down 13 photos from this particular series, and it is possible there may be more. Heinrich Hoffmann often photographed Adolf Hitler in many various outfits during the late 1920’s to help him decide what would make himself most… read more