Max Berg
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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 Schäfer who favoured Gothic architecture. And then under Franz Adickes (1846–1915), important urban planner
In 1909 he was appointed senior building official in Breslau, Silesia). His most notable contribution to architecture is the Centennial Hall (German: Jahrhunderthalle, Polish: Hala Ludowa) built between 1911 and 1913 as part of a series of works commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 1813 War of Liberation against Napoleon I. It was designated a World Heritage Site in 2006.
In 1925 he moved to Berlin and then to Baden-Baden, where he died aged 76.
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