Heinrich August Anton Gerber (23 August 1831 – 28 February 1920) was a German architect.

Life and work

From 1847 to 1852, he studied at the Technical University of Hanover with

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. After graduating, he briefly worked in the university's architecture office. Between 1853 and 1857, he did work at in Linden, and was site manager for the railway station at Hannoversch-Münden. After that, he worked abroad. This included a project in Paris, with

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, involving a redesign of the

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. He also worked in Brazil, where he was the Chief Engineer for the province of

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. There, in addition to numerous

civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

works, he helped create a new provincial map and designed a theatre for

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. For his work there, Emperor

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awarded him the Knight's Cross of the

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. Upon returning to Germany, he initially worked for the

Royal Hanoverian State Railways The Royal Hanoverian State Railways (German: ''Königlich Hannöversche Staatseisenbahnen'') existed from 1843 until the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866. At that time its railway network, which comprised 800&nb ...

, but the largest part of his career, from 1896 to 1901, was spent as a construction officer with the Building Department in

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. From 1898, he was in charge of civil engineering. In addition to his work for the city, he assisted with projects in other cities throughout

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and, with official permission, worked on some private projects.Jan Volker Wilhelm: ''Das Baugeschäft und die Stadt'', 2006, Seite 32
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During the latter part of his time there, he was involved in

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and

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. He retired in 1901, due to unspecified health issues. Shortly after, he received the Order of the Crown from Kaiser

Wilhelm II Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until Abdication of Wilhelm II, his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as th ...

. A street in Göttingen is named after him. His most notable buildings include:Ilse Röttgerodt-Riechmann, Christiane Segers-Glocke (Eds.), ''Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen'' Vol.5, Stadt Göttingen, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1982 a villa for the lawyer, Carl Ludwig von Bar, who served on the Hague Tribunal; the cemetery chapel at the Stadtfriedhof in Göttingen; cadet housing for the ; and an observation tower known as the .

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Data on Heinrich Gerber
@ ''Architekten und Künstler mit direktem Bezug zu Conrad Wilhelm Hase'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerber, Heinrich August Anton 1831 births 1920 deaths 19th-century German architects German civil engineers German urban planners Architects from Hanover