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Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann, sometimes known as Hans Zimmermann (8 November 1831, Elbing - 18 March 1911,
His father was a construction manager who briefly served as the Mayor of Elbing. He initially studied art history at the University of Königsberg, passed the surveyor's examination and was involved in building a section of the Prussian Eastern Railway. From 1854 to 1856, he studied at the Bauakademie 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
Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann, sometimes known as Hans Zimmermann (8 November 1831, Elbing - 18 March 1911, Hamburg
Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...
) was a German architect and construction manager.
Biography
His father was a construction manager who briefly served as the Mayor of Elbing. He initially studied art history at the University of Königsberg, passed the surveyor's examination and was involved in building a section of the Prussian Eastern Railway. From 1854 to 1856, he studied at the Bauakademie 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
The Wilhelm-Gymnasium is a university preparatory school in Hamburg, Germany. It is one of Hamburg's oldest schools. It was founded in 1881 and called ''Neue Gelehrtenschule'' (transl. New Academic school) and soon became a rival of the Academic ...
(1883–85), and the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (1884–89), among others. He also assisted Franz Andreas Meyer
Franz Ferdinand Carl Andreas Meyer (6 December 1837, Hamburg - 17 March 1901, Bad Wildungen) was a German civil engineer, known primarily as the creator of the Speicherstadt on Hamburg's waterfront.
Biography
He was born to Ferdinand Wilhelm Me ...
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. His grave has not been preserved.
In 2005–06, the Museum of Architecture, Wrocław
The Museum of Architecture (in Polish: ''Muzeum Architektury'') is in Wrocław, Poland.Daria Dorota Pikulska: ''Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann'', Exhibition catalog, Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu, 2005,
References
Further reading
* "Zimmermann, Carl Johann Christian". In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Eds.): ''Hamburgische Biografie''. Vol.3. Wallstein, Göttingen 2006, , pp. 426–428. * Dieter Schädel: ''Auf den Spuren von C. J. Christian Zimmermann in Hamburg. Hamburger Baudirektor der Gründerzeit von 1872–1908. Drei Architekturrundgänge zu Bauten von C. J. Chr. Zimmermann''. Hamburger Feuerkasse, in cooperation with the Fritz-Schumacher-Institut, Hamburg 2004.External links
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