Egon Eiermann (1904–1970) was a German architect and furniture designer, one of the most prominent German architects of the second half of the 20th century. Born near Potsdam, he studied at the Technical University of Berlin and was a master student of Hans Poelzig from 1925 to 1928. He practised in Berlin from 1931, and after the war moved to Karlsruhe, where he taught from 1947 and worked on steel-frame construction; his transparent steel-frame factories of the rebuilding years became models. With Sep Ruf he designed West Germany's pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair.
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The Matthäuskirche Pforzheim (1953) preceded his best-known work, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin (1963). He won its 1956 competition proposing to clear the bomb-damaged ruin, but public outcry led him to keep the remnant of the old spire between a new octagonal church and a hexagonal tower. The church walls are a concrete honeycomb holding 21,292 pieces of stained glass by Gabriel Loire. The Langer Eugen in Bonn (1969), commissioned in 1965, held the offices of the members of the Bundestag until parliament moved to Berlin in 1999.
