Hermann Eggert
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3 January 1844
Hermann Eggert | |
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 Neues Rathaus Hannover, designed by Eggert | |
| Born | Georg Peter Hermann Eggert 3 January 1844 |
| Died | 12 March 1920 (aged 76) |
| Education | Bauakademie Berlin |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Prussian Academy of Arts |
Georg Peter Hermann Eggert (3 January 1844 – 12 March 1920) was a German architect. He designed important public buildings such as the Frankfurt Main Station and the New Town Hall in Hannover, often in the style of Neo-Renaissance.
Born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Eggert studied with Heinrich Strack at the Bauakademie in Berlin. [1][2] He worked from 1875 to 1889 as Universitätsbaumeister in Strasbourg,[2] designing several buildings of the university in the Neustadt such as the observatory, and building the Palais du Rhin (Emperor's Palace) for Wilhelm II.[3] He built the Frankfurt Main Station from 1883 to 1888, regarded as his most important building.[1]
Eggert served as Oberbaurat in the Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten (Ministry of Public Works) of Prussia in Berlin, where he was mostly responsible for church buildings.[3] He participated in the competition for the New Town Hall in Hannover in 1895, won the second competition a year later and was commissioned to build the exterior.[1] From 1898 he worked in his own office in Hannover. He was in conflict about the design of the Prunkräume (Representative Rooms) of the Town Hall with Christian Heinrich Tramm who had designed the Welfenschloss (Welf palace, now the main building of Leibniz University Hannover), As a result, his contract was cancelled in 1909.[2]
Many of Eggert's designs are in the style of Neo-Renaissance.[2] He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1896 in the section Bildende Künste (Arts).[1] Eggert died in Weimar.[2]
Recognition
Selected works and designs
- 1869: Competition design for the new Berlin Cathedral (not built)
- 1872–1877: Ernst Moritz Arndt Tower on Rügen
- 1881: Observatory of the Strasbourg University
- 1883–1888: Frankfurt Main Station[1]
- 1884–1889: Palais du Rhin in Strasbourg
- 1898: Hamburg-Altona station (demolished in 1978)
- 1898–1899: Tierärztliche Hochschule (Academy of Veterinary Medicine) in Hannover (destroyed in World War II)
- 1898–1909: New Town Hall in Hannover[1]
- 1899–1902: Annex of the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) (now Straße des 17. Juni 145)
- 1907: Bismarckturm in Burg bei Magdeburg
