Emílio Henrique Baumgart

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Emílio Henrique Baumgart or Emil Heinrich Baumgart (in German) was born on May 25, 1889 in the city of Blumenau, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He married Stela Maria in 1915 with whom he had a son and a daughter (his son dies at the young age of 24). Emílio Henrique Baumgart's father was the German immigrant Gustav Baumgart and his mother was Mathilde Odebrecht, daughter of the German immigrant and engineer Emílio (Emil) Odebrecht. A typical German-Brazilian of his day Emílio Henrique Baumgart was bilingual, speaking both German and Portuguese fluently. He died unexpectedly on his way to work on the ninth of October of 1943.

Emílio Henrique Baumgart started his studies in his home state but also studied in the city of São Leopoldo, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Later he was accepted and attended the Escola Politécnica do Rio de Janeiro (today's Escola de Engenharia da UFRJ); at which time he worked as an intern the Firma L. Riedlinger (an engineering firm located in Rio de Janeiro). Lambert Riedlinger brought the reinforced concrete building technique from Germany at the time. As a result, Emílio Henrique Baumgart became well known for his innovative projects throughout the land and abroad.


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