Fritz Todt was a German construction engineer and senior Nazi who rose from the position of Inspector General for German Roadways, in which he directed the construction of the German autobahns, to become the Reich Minister for Armaments and Ammunition. From that position, he directed the entire German wartime military economy.
Before the beginning of World War II, he initiated what Hitler called Organisation Todt, a military-engineering company that supplied industry with forced labour and administered construction of the Nazi concentration camps in the late phase of Nazi Germany.
Todt died in an aircraft crash in 1942.