Eugen Habermann

Eugen Habermann (born 7 Oktoberjul / October 19 1884greg in Tallinn, .. † September 17, 1944 in the Gulf of Gdansk ) was an Estonian architect.

Early years

Eugen Habermann studied from 1902 to 1905 at the Riga Polytechnical Institute and from 1906 to 1909 at the Technical University Dresden. From 1909 to 1912 he worked in the Saxon Dresden, 1910/1911 in Liepāja and Kurzeme in 1913 in Tallinn, Estonia.

1913 Habermann was site manager at the concert and opera house, Estonia. From 1914 to 1923 Habermann worked as city architect of Tallinn. From 1919 to 1923 he was also director of the Baureferats in the Estonian Ministry of the Interior. From 1922 to 1932 Eugen Habermann first chairman of the Estonian Union of Architects ( Eesti Arhitektide Ühing ).

Architect in Tallinn

Eugen Habermann has left many traces as an architect in Tallinn. Between 1917 and 1920 he took a decisive part in the urban planning of Tallinn. Together with Herbert Johanson Voldemar he designed the building of the Estonian Parliament ( Riigikogu ) in place of the ruins of the former convent building on Cathedral Hill. It was the first representative building of the new Estonian state. The building is oriented to two different styles: the traditionalism or late Art Nouveau style of the 1920s to the outside and the inside Expressionism. It is the only parliament building in the style of Expressionism world.

In the second half of the 1920s his style became functionalist. Originate from this period

• Rauaniit - Trikotagefabrik, 1926-1932 (Tallinn, Põhja puiestee 7)
• Power station, 1928-1932 (Tallinn, Põhja puiestee 27)
• Business and residential house, 1932/1933 (Tallinn, Pärnu maantee 6)
• Headquartered Eesti Pank, 1935 (Tallinn, Estonia puiestee 13, together with Herbert Voldemar Johanson )
• House, 1939 ( Tallinn, Roosikrantsi 8/8a )