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Egon Eiermann was born on 29 September, 1904 in Potsdam, Germany, is a German architect. Discover Egon Eiermann's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

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Occupation art_director
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 29 September, 1904
Birthday 29 September
Birthplace Potsdam, Germany
Date of death 19 July, 1970
Died Place Baden-Baden, Germany
Nationality Germany

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1874

Eiermann was born in Neuendorf bei Potsdam (now part of Babelsberg, Potsdam), the son of Wilhelm Eiermann (1874–1948), a locomotive engineer and his wife Emma Gellhorn (1875–1959).

He archived his Abitur at the Althoff-Gymnasium and studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin.

1904

Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 19 July 1970 ) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century.

He was also a furniture designer.

1925

From 1925 to 1928, he was master student of Hans Poelzig.

1926

The sets of the 1926 film The Pink Diamond were designed by Eiermann.

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1928

After graduating in 1928, he gained professional experience in the construction departments of Karstadt AG in Hamburg and the Berlin electricity works (Bewag (Berlin)).

1931

From 1931 to 1945, he was an independent architect in Berlin and initially planned residential buildings.

Before World War II he had an office with fellow architect Fritz Jaenecke.

During the Nazi era, he mainly created industrial architecture.

1940

In 1940, he married in Berlin interior designer Charlotte, Friedheim (1912–2001) and in 1954 in Berlin architect Brigitte, née Feyerabendt (1924–2019).

1942

He had two children: with his first wife Andreas (born 1942), from his second marriage Anna (born 1956).

He died in Baden-Baden, aged 65.

He is buried at the Buchen Cemetery.

During the years of reconstruction, his steel-frame industrial buildings became exemplary.

The buildings are transparent, inviting, democratic, making order visible.

1945

In 1945, he escaped to Buchen in West Germany, the birthplace of the father.

1946

From 1946 to 1965, he had a shared office with Robert Hilgers.

1947

From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.

He joined the faculty of the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe in 1947, working there on developing steel frame construction methods.

Students were Oswald Mathias Ungers and Julia Bolles-Wilson.

1948

In 1948, the office was relocated to Karlsruhe.

1949

From 1949, the first functional and serially produced seating furniture made of wood and tubular steel was created in cooperation with the Esslingen company Wilde + Spieth.

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1950

During a study trip to the United States in 1950, he met Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Konrad Wachsmann in Boston, and in 1956 also Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

1951

A functionalist, his major works include: the textile mill at Blumberg (1951); the West German pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (with Sep Ruf, 1958); the Embassy of Germany, Washington, D.C. (1958–1964); the highrise Langer Eugen for the German Parliament in Bonn (1965–1969); the IBM-Germany Headquarters in Stuttgart (1967–1972); and, the Olivetti building in Frankfurt (1968–1972).

1959

By far his most famous work is the new church on the site of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin (1959–1963).

1967

In 1967, Eiermann chaired the jury in the architectural competition for the Olympic Park in Munich.

1997

In 1997, the Egon Eiermann Society was founded in Karlsruhe.

2004

In 2004, the Bundespost honored Eiermann with a special postage stamp.

In Karlsruhe, Egon-Eiermann-Allee (49.03677°N, 8.34895°W) was named after him in 2009.

One of the lecture halls in the architectural building (49.01115°N, 8.41107°W) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology bears his name.

The Egon Eiermann Award is an international ideas competition in architecture.

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