Heinrich Gerber

Heinrich August Anton Gerber (23 August 1831 – 28 February 1920) was a German architect.

Life and work From 1847 to 1852, he studied at the Technical University of Hanover with Conrad Wilhelm Hase. After graduating, he briefly worked in the university's architecture office. Between 1853 and 1857, he did work at in Linden, and was site manager for the railway station at Hannoversch-Münden.

After that, he worked abroad. This included a project in Paris, with Jacques Ignace Hittorff, involving a redesign of the Place de la Concorde. He also worked in Brazil, where he was the Chief Engineer for the province of Minas Gerais. There, in addition to numerous civil engineering works, he helped create a new provincial map and designed a theatre for Ouro Preto. During the latter part of his time there, he was involved in urban planning and infrastructure. a villa for the lawyer, Carl Ludwig von Bar, who served on the Hague Tribunal; the cemetery chapel at the Stadtfriedhof in Göttingen; cadet housing for the ; and an observation tower known as the .