Richard Ermisch (full name: ''Georg Friedrich Richard Ermisch'') (17 June 1885,

Halle an der Saale Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the German state of Saxony-Anh ...

Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt (german: Sachsen-Anhalt ; nds, Sassen-Anholt) is a state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Thuringia and Lower Saxony. It covers an area of and has a population of 2.18 million inhabitants, making it the ...

– 7 December 1960,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

) was a German

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

and

graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...

. From 1903 to 1906, he attended the 'Königliche Preußische Baugewerkschule' at

Erfurt Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits i ...

. For a short time, he worked with Karl Doflein in Berlin, and from 1907 to 1922 at the municipal building control office in

Charlottenburg Charlottenburg () is a Boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a German town law, town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Kingdom ...

, which was an independent city until 1920. Afterwards, he was employed at the municipal construction office of Berlin until he retired in 1950. In between, he became ''Baurat'' (building control office surveyor) in 1921, ''Oberbaurat'' in 1929, later ''Magistratsbaurat'' and finally ''Stadtbaudirektor'', head of the Berlin municipal building office. His most notable buildings are the main building with the entry hall at the Berlin fairgrounds in 1936 and the

Strandbad Wannsee The Strandbad Wannsee is an open-air lido on the eastern shore of Großer Wannsee lake, a large bay of the Havel river in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1907, it is one of the largest inland lidos in Europe, with a beach that is long and wide, replen ...

, with fellow architect Martin Wagner, in 1929–1930, where he developed a row of long, low buildings that appear to grow out of the underlying sandhills.(german) Further buildings include several housing projects in

Spandau Spandau () is the westernmost of the 12 boroughs () of Berlin, situated at the confluence of the Havel and Spree rivers and extending along the western bank of the Havel. It is the smallest borough by population, but the fourth largest by land ...

and the Tiergarten city hall in 1935–1936. After World War II, together with

Karl Bonatz Karl Nikolaus Bonatz (1882–1951) was a German architect, best known for designing a bunker in 1943 that is now an art gallery. He was the younger brother of fellow architect Paul Bonatz. The brothers presented a plan for modernising the H� ...

he presented a plan for the rebuilding of Berlin.

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File:Spandau zeppelinstr.jpg, Housing project, Zeppelinstraße, Spandau, 1926/27 File:Siedlung 5 Birkenwäldchen Berlin.JPG, Siedlung Birkenwäldchen, residential area in Berlin-Wilhelmstadt, 1926/28 File:Strandbad Berlin-Wannsee vom See 04-2015.jpg, Strandbad Wannsee, 1929/30 File:Rathaus_Tiergarten.jpg, Tiergarten city hall, 1935/36 File:Berlin Messe.jpg, Messe Berlin: Main building with entry hall, 1935/37

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