Hermann Eggert
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. Career. Born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Eggert studied with Heinrich Strack at the Bauakademie in Berlin. Eggert served as "Oberbaurat" in the (Ministry of Public Works) of Prussia in Berlin, where he was mostly responsible for church buildings. 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. 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 (Welf palace, now the main building of Leibniz University Hannover), As a result, his contract was cancelled in 1909. Many of Eggert's designs are in the style of Neo-Renaissance. He was a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts from 1896 in the section "" (Arts). Eggert died in Weimar. Recognition. Many of Eggert's designs are held  at the Museum of Architecture of the Technische Universität Berlin. In the central Frankfurt Gallus quarter a section of a street called after Camberg was renamed Hermann-Eggert-Straße in 2009.