Martin Eggert
Martin Eggert (born June 3, 1883 in Wismar , † 1978 in Güstrow ) was a German architect .
Life
Born in Wismar as the son of the court mason Adolph Eggert, Martin Eggert learned the mason trade after finishing secondary school there. He then attended the building trade school in Lübeck and the Sternberg technical center . During this time he met Heinrich Tessenow , a little older teacher , in whom he would find a valuable friend decades later. In 1903, after completing his training, Eggert was employed by the city of Wismar and commissioned to set up an elementary school. At that time he was accepted into the Lodge "Zur Vaterlandsliebe".
After the completion of the new primary school in 1905, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Munich . In addition, from 1907 he took on leading positions in Konstanz and Koblenz . Returned to his hometown after the death of his father, Eggert worked as a freelancer from 1911. Very soon the city council appointed him as an artistic advisory council with voting rights in the “Commission for the Preservation of the Cityscape of Wismar”. Since 1914 at the latest he was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA).
In 1915, following a call from the city council, Eggert moved to Güstrow and was appointed senator and city planning director. He remained in this position until 1919. When Eggert was appointed City Planning Director in 1915, Eggert began active work in Güstrow. During this period, city expansion plans, public construction projects such as the water tower (1928), private buildings (including houses Oppen 1923/1924, Wulf 1928, Reeps 1929, Winzeler 1935), smaller operating facilities (gas works 1917/1918), Niemann before 1921, hall construction in the hotel Hereditary Grand Duke 1925, bed spring factory 1928, petrol station with garages on Schweriner Straße (draft 1939), but especially his small apartment buildings, see below. a. in Dettmannsdorf (since 1920), Am Mühlbach (1928–1933), in Falkenflucht (1926), on Parumer Straße (1920), on Parumer Weg (1932/1933) and in the area of Goldberger Chaussee (project planning 1938), in total 1,400 apartments. In Martin Eggert's work, social housing is of particular importance. In 1918 he was one of the co-founders of the Güstrow building cooperative “Neue Heimat”, of which he was its managing director until 1938.
Due to his anti-Nazi attitude, he was dismissed as managing director of "Neue Heimat" and received no more public contracts. In 1942 the Rostock regional court sentenced him to eighteen months in prison. After his release, he was banned from practicing his profession. In this situation it was his friend Heinrich Tessenow who supported him in many ways and gave him the construction management of his country house in Siemitz near Laage .
After the end of the war, he again took over the management of the building cooperative in 1946, which had since been converted into a state-owned company. The population of Güstrow had risen considerably, and housing was urgently needed. So he redesigned the existing barracks, and further residential buildings were built in Wossidlostrasse and Heideweg. By 1950, 250 apartments could be built in this way.
In 1952, Eggert, who was almost seventy, was appointed to a teaching position at the Berlin Building Academy. According to reports, he was also entrusted with planning the reconstruction of the building of the Bauakademie built by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The gold Schinkel Medal was awarded to the now ninety-year-old man in 1973 and went to the “meritorious, tirelessly active architect who had struggled from his youth to achieve lofty, humanistic goals”. Smaller construction projects in Güstrow, which, of course, were not comparable to his earlier buildings in terms of content and form, kept Eggert busy until 1967.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neudeutsche Bauzeitung 1914, No. 20.
literature
- Angelika Schmiegelow-Powell: Güstrow in the 20th century. Edition Temmen , 2001. ISBN 3-86108-760-X
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eggert, Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wismar |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1978 |
| Place of death | Guestrow |