Eberhard Gildemeister (1897–1978) was a German architect who was mainly active in
Bremen
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. In addition to a number of churches and residential buildings, he designed the
Sparkasse building on Bremen's
market square
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. After serving in the army from 1915 to 1918, he studied architecture at the
Darmstadt University of Technology
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.
Career
When 30, he joined the practice of
Rudolph Jacobs
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. The following year (1928), together with his brother
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, he won a competition for designing the
Haus des Reichs
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, still one of Bremen's largest office buildings. Considered to have a "festive" appearance, it was completed in 1931. From 1932 to 1939, the Gildemeisters designed a number of residential buildings.
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After the war, in addition to housing, Gildemeister built six churches including the delicately proportioned ]St Rimbert Church
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(''Rimbertikirche'', 1951) after its predecessor was destroyed during the war. He also participated in designing the Sparkasse am Markt after the building on the Schlachte
The Schlachte is a promenade along the east bank of the River Weser in the old town of Bremen in the north of Germany. Once one of the city's harbours, it is now popular for its restaurants, beer gardens and river boats.
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had been destroyed. Towards the end of his life, he designed an extension to Kunsthalle Bremen
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.[
Other Bremen buildings designed by Gildemeister include:]
References
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1897 births
1978 deaths
20th-century German architects
Architects from Bremen
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni