Max Berg

Max Berg (17 April 1870 – 22 January 1947) was a German architect and urban planner.

Centennial Hall in Wrocław

Hydroelectric power station in Wrocław

Berg was born in Stettin (Szczecin) in Prussian Pomerania. He attended the Technical University in Charlottenburg, where he was taught by Carl Schäfer who favoured Gothic architecture. Berg was also taught by Franz Adickes (1846–1915), an important urban planner.

In 1909 Berg was appointed senior building official in Breslau (Wrocław), Prussian Silesia. His most notable contribution to architecture is the Centennial Hall built between 1911 and 1913 as part of a series of works commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1813 War of Liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte. The Hall is an important early landmark of European reinforced concrete buildings, and it was designated a World Heritage Site in 2006.

Other works in Breslau (Wrocław) include the market hall (a huge concrete structure of elliptical arches, but appearing more traditional externally) and a large office building on the SW corner of the main town square.

In 1925 Berg moved to Berlin and then to Baden-Baden, where he died aged 76.

External links

• Max Berg information at Structurae
  • Century Hall at Structurae
• www.wroclaw.pl: Collection of photographs of Jahrhunderthalle
• Another collection of photographs of Jahrhunderthalle
• biography

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Name	Berg, Max
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Date of birth	17 April 1870
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Date of death	22 January 1947
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