Georg Peter Hermann Eggert (3 January 1844 – 12 March 1920) was a German architect. He designed important public buildings such as the

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and the New Town Hall in Hannover, often in the style of

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Career

Born in

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, Eggert studied with

Heinrich Strack Johann Heinrich Strack (6 July 1805, Bückeburg – 13 June 1880, Berlin) was a German architect of the '' Schinkelschule''. His notable works include the Berlin Victory Column. Life and work His father, , was a painter of portraits and vedut ...

at the

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in Berlin. He worked from 1875 to 1889 as ' in

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, designing several buildings of the university in the Neustadt such as the

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, and building the ''

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'' (Emperor's Palace) for

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. He built the

from 1883 to 1888, regarded as his most important building. Eggert served as ''Oberbaurat'' in the (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

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who had designed the (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

. He was a member of the

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from 1896 in the section ' (Arts). Eggert died in

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Recognition

Many of Eggert's designs are held at the Museum of Architecture of the

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. In the central

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Gallus quarter a section of a street called after Camberg was renamed Hermann-Eggert-Straße in 2009.

Selected works and designs

* 1869: Competition design for the new

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(not built) * 1872–1877:

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* 1881: Observatory of the Strasbourg University * 1883–1888:

* 1884–1889:

in Strasbourg * 1898:

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(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 * 1899–1902: Annex of the

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

(now

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145) * 1907: Bismarckturm in

Literature

* ' 1905, No 493. * Alexander Dorner: ' Hannover 1931, p. 26. * Christine Kranz-Michaelis: ' ''}'', vol. 4.) Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1982, , pp. 395–413. * Wolfgang Steinweg: ' Schlüter, Hannover 1988, , p. 38f

References

External links

Hermann Eggert
Akademie der Künste {{DEFAULTSORT:Eggert, Hermann 19th-century German architects 1844 births 1920 deaths People from Burg bei Magdeburg 20th-century German architects