Hermann Friedrich Waesemann

Hermann Friedrich Waesemann ( born June 6 1813 in Gdansk, † 28 January 1879 in Berlin) was a German architect. His most famous building is the Red Town Hall in Berlin's Mitte district in today's Town Hall Street.

Life

Hermann Waesemann, son of an architect, studied from 1830 Mathematics and Science in Bonn, before he in 1832 to study at the Berlin Academy of Architecture began, from which he graduated in 1835 as Kondukteur. His apartment he took in the room road 30

Until 1838 Waesemann worked in Beautiful Beck and Rathenow, then studied further and obtained a degree in 1841 as a builder. Was interrupted this second study in 1839 and 1840 because Waesemann Stüler participated as an employee Frederick Augustus in the reconstruction of the castle 'disease.

From 1841 to 1844 Waesemann was again involved as employees Stüler, the planning and construction of the Neues Museum in Berlin. Now he lived in Markgrafenstrasse 90 In the following years he worked from 1844 to 1849 for the Berlin Palace and Construction Committee, was then three years as a freelance architect, taught from 1851 to 1853 at the School of Architecture and worked until 1855 in government services in Wroclaw, before he was taken in the same year as the architect of the local building commission. He designed together with other architects, the stock market, a bandstand, private houses to garden entrances and much more.

In 1855 he was promoted to royal building inspector and took up his residence again in Berlin, in the Charles Street. In 1859 he gave up the position in the building commission and devoted all his energies to the construction of the Berlin City Hall, which was his main work. He planned every detail, ultimately, also for the interior and especially the terracotta jewelery.

After leaving government service in 1865 Waesemann was co-founder of the Berlin Building Association Bank and in 1866 co-chairman of the Berlin Vereinsbank.

Honors

Waesemann is buried in the Cemetery II of Sophie community in Berlin. His tomb is a Berlin memorial grave.

On August 15, 2007, a bust for Waesemann was the Councillor for Culture, André Schmitz, revealed. She received her place at the entrance to the Hall of Columns of the Red Town Hall.