Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann, sometimes known as Hans Zimmermann (8 November 1831, Elbing - 18 March 1911,

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

) was a German architect and construction manager.

Biography

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Ansicht Südosten

His father was a construction manager who briefly served as the Mayor of Elbing. He initially studied art history at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Prussi ...

, passed the surveyor's examination and was involved in building a section of the

Prussian Eastern Railway The Prussian Eastern Railway (german: Preußische Ostbahn) was a railway in the Kingdom of Prussia and later Germany until 1918. Its main route, approximately long, connected the capital, Berlin, with the cities of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) ...

. From 1854 to 1856, he studied at the

Bauakademie The Bauakademie (''Building Academy'') in Berlin, Germany, was a higher education school for the art of building to train master builders. It originated from the construction department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences (from ...

in Berlin and passed the construction manager examination. He was awarded the for engineering twice; in 1860 and 1861. After 1862, he worked for the Building and Planning Commission, where his first assignment was designing the . In 1864, he moved to Breslau, where he had been elected head of the Building Department; responsible for building construction, town planning, and pipeline networks. He resigned that office in 1872. From 1872 to 1908, he was in charge of urban development and the environment in Hamburg. His projects during that time included the

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

(1873–76), the , the Wilhelm-Gymnasium (1883–85), and the

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (german: Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)) is the teaching hospital of the University of Hamburg and the largest hospital in Hamburg, Germany. The UKE has 1,738 beds and 121 day-care pl ...

(1884–89), among others. He also assisted Franz Andreas Meyer in planning the

Speicherstadt The Speicherstadt (, literally: 'City of Warehouses', meaning warehouse district) in Hamburg, Germany is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations, oak logs, in this particular case. It is ...

at Hamburg harbor. He resigned at the age of seventy-seven. He had already transferred most of his major responsibilities to . Fritz Schumacher was chosen to be his successor. He died at the age of eighty, was cremated, and interred at the

Friedhof Ohlsdorf Ohlsdorf Cemetery (german: Ohlsdorfer Friedhof or (former) ) in the Ohlsdorf quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the fourth-largest cemetery in the world. Most of the people buried at the cemete ...

. His grave has not been preserved. In 2005–06, the Museum of Architecture, Wrocław (Breslau) held an exhibition of his plans and drawings called "Architect in Service of the City".Daria Dorota Pikulska: ''Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann'', Exhibition catalog, Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, 2005,

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zimmermann 1831 births 1911 deaths 19th-century German architects People from Elbląg

Biography

References

Further reading

External links