max berg

Max Berg (17 April 1870 - 22 January 1947) was a German architect and urban planner. He attended the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, Berlin where he was taught by Carl Schfer who favoured Gothic architecture. And then under Franz Adickes (1846 1915), important urban planner In 1909 he was appointed senior building official in Breslau, then the second most important city in Imperial Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). His most notable contribution to architecture is the Century Hall (German: Jahrhunderthalle, Polish: Hala Ludowa) built between 1911 and 1913 there as part of a series of works celebrating 100 years since the 1813 War of Liberation. It was the greatest hall of the world at that time. In 1925 he moved to Berlin and then to Baden-Baden, where he died aged 76.

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