Friedrich Hitzig

Georg Friedrich Heinrich Hitzig (November 8, 1811, Berlin – October 11, 1881, Berlin) was a German architect, born into the Jewish Itzig family, converted to Lutheranism. He was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

After his diploma in 1835 he founded an architectural practice in Berlin. In 1855 Hitzig became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. In 1868 he became senator and in 1875 president of the academy. in 1880 he was elected department head for building construction of the Academy of Civil Engineering.

For his work he made several educational journeys to Italy, Egypt and Greece (1845/57/64).

Notable buildings

The building of the Reichsbank in Berlin

• 1848–1891 Castle Neetzow
• 1854–1855 Castle Bredenfelde
• 1859–1864 Berliner Börse (Berlin Stock Exchange), Burgstraße (destroyed in 1945)
• 1868–1871 the Kronenberg Palace in Warsaw (Poland)
• 1869–1878 Reichsbank (German central bank), Jägerstraße, Berlin, (destroyed in 1945)
• 1877–1881 Refurbishing of the Zeughaus in Berlin
• 1878–1884 old main building of the Royal Technical College, Berlin-Charlottenburg
• Embassy of Switzerland, Berlin-Tiergarten
• Refurbishing of a markethall to the Großes Schauspielhaus, later the Friedrichsstadtpalast in Berlin
• Numerous villas and houses in the districts of Friedrichstadt and Tiergarten
• Leipziger Platz 12, a mansion then the British and later Ottoman embassy

See also

• Itzig family