Egon Eiermann
Designer and architect Egon Eiermann
Born in Neuendorf in 1904, Egon Fritz Wilhelm Eiermann was a German architect, university teacher and furniture designer. Eiermann worked after graduating from high school in the construction workshop of Karstadt Hamburg. Until his time as a professor at Karlsruhe University of Technology, Eiermann worked as a freelance architect and worked in the planning office of the Elektrizitätswerke Berlin.
Architecture
Administrative and industrial buildings were part of Egon Eiermann's specialization. His building designs include, for example, the high-rise in Bonn, built from 1965 to 1969, as well as the IBM administration building, built from 1967 to 1972, and the Olivetti administration and training center, built from 1969 to 1972 in Frankfurt am Main.
Other buildings include the Horten department stores in Heidelberg and Heilbronn, the Merkur in Stuttgart and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin.
In 1958 Eiermann designed the German Pavilion at the World's Fair in Brussels.
** Image: By Carsten Wolff für das Bundesministerium der Finanzen und die Deutsche Post AG - Deutsche Post AG, Public domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10626806