Georg Peter Hermann Eggert (3 January 1844 – 12 March 1920) was a German architect. He designed important public buildings such as the Frankfurt Main Station and the New Town Hall in Hannover, often in the style of Neo-Renaissance.
Eggert served as Oberbaurat in the Ministerium für öffentliche Arbeiten [de] (Ministry of Public Works) of Prussia in Berlin, where he was mostly responsible for church buildings.[3] 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.[1] 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 Christian Heinrich Tramm who had designed the Welfenschloss (Welf palace, now the main building of Leibniz University Hannover), As a result, his contract was cancelled in 1909.[2]
Many of Eggert's designs are held at the Museum of Architecture of Technische Universität Berlin.[4] In the central FrankfurtGallus quarter a section of a street called after Camberg was renamed Hermann-Eggert-Straße in 2009.[2]
Selected works and designs
1869: Competition design for the new Berlin Cathedral (not built)
Spemanns goldenes Buch vom eigenen Heim 1905, No 493.
Alexander Dorner: 100 Jahre Bauen in Hannover. Zur Jahrhundertfeier der Technischen Hochschule. Hannover 1931, p. 26.
Christine Kranz-Michaelis: Das Rathaus im Kaiserreich. Kunstpolitische Aspekte einer Bauaufgabe des 19. Jahrhunderts.Kunst, Kultur und Politik im deutschen Kaiserreich}, vol. 4.) Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1982, ISBN3-7861-1339-4, pp. 395–413.
Wolfgang Steinweg: Das Rathaus in Hannover. Von der Kaiserzeit bis in die Gegenwart. Schlüter, Hannover 1988, ISBN3-87706-287-3, p. 38f