Hans Poelzig (1869–1936) was a German architect, painter and set designer whose work moved through Expressionism and the New Objectivity. Born in Berlin, he designed many industrial buildings after his training and in 1903 became director of the Breslau Academy of Art and Design, in today's Wrocław. He was made city architect of Dresden in 1916 and taught at the Technische Hochschule Berlin from 1920 to 1935, where Egon Eiermann was among his master students. He remodelled the Grosses Schauspielhaus in Berlin for Max Reinhardt in 1919 and designed the sets for the 1920 film The Golem.
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The Four Domes Pavilion in Wrocław (1913) is now part of the Centennial Hall World Heritage Site. The Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin (1931) is the world's oldest self-contained broadcasting centre: he put three large studios at its centre, shielded from street noise by office wings around them. His best-known building, the IG Farben Building in Frankfurt (1930), has a 250-metre, gently curved main block with six wings; it was the largest building of the Weimar Republic, served as Eisenhower's headquarters from 1945, and now belongs to Goethe University.
