Hermann Eggert Explained

Hermann Eggert
Birth Name:Georg Peter Hermann Eggert
Birth Date:3 January 1844
Birth Place:Burg bei Magdeburg, Province of Saxony
Death Place:Weimar
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.

Career

Born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Eggert studied with Heinrich Strack at the Bauakademie in Berlin. He worked from 1875 to 1889 as German: Universitätsbaumeister in Strasbourg, 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. He built the Frankfurt Main Station from 1883 to 1888, regarded as his most important building.

Eggert served as Oberbaurat in the German: {{Interlanguage link multi|Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten|de (Ministry of Public Works) of Prussia in Berlin, where he was mostly responsible for church buildings. 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. 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.

Many of Eggert's designs are in the style of Neo-Renaissance. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1896 in the section German: Bildende Künste (Arts). Eggert died in Weimar.

Recognition

Many of Eggert's designs are held at the Museum of Architecture of Technische Universität Berlin. In the central Frankfurt Gallus quarter a section of a street called after Camberg was renamed Hermann-Eggert-Straße in 2009.

Selected works and designs

Literature

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