Hans Schiller was an architect and active member in Californian Democratic politics. Born in Breslau, Germany in 1917, Schiller moved to Palestine in 1935 to escape persecution from the Nazi regime. He attended the American University of Beirut as a spy for the Haganah before returning to Hebrew University and later serving as a map-maker for the British army during WWII. After taking up an architecture apprenticeship, Schiller moved to San Francisco in 1947 and worked as an architect under Eric Mendelsohn until his death in 1953. While running his own architectural firm, he was appointed as Chairman of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. In this interview, Schiller discusses his work as part of the Haganah, the Madeline Haas Russell house, California Democratic Council in the sixties and seventies, and the Board of Architectural Examiners.