Karl Badberger was a German

Germany

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 architect

Architect

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Biography

Badberger graduated at the Technical University of Munich in 1911, became Regierungsbaumeister in 1919 and joined the Bayerische Staatsbauverwaltung (Bavarian State Construction Administration) in 1920. Afterwards he served as an Ministerialrat

Undersecretary

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 at the Reichs Ministry of Finance in Berlin

Berlin

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World War II

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, in the rank of an Oberregierungsbaudirektor, he led the Bundesbaudirektion (Federal Building Authority) in Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

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Works (selection)

• 1922: war memorial of the former Bavarian railroad troops of World War I, Eisenbahnkaserne
  Eisenbahnkaserne
  The Eisenbahnkaserne was a military facility in Munich existing from 1890 to 1976. The "Kasernement des Eisenbahnbataillons" was built between 1888 and 1889...
  
  
• 1926-1928: Landesamt für Maß und Gewicht (regional office of measures and weights), Munich

Publications

• Badberger, Karl: Das Münchener Kriegerdenkmal, in the Süddeutsche Baugewerkszeitung, 28. Jg., No. 8, 20. 4. 1925, pp. 105–108.
• Badberger, Karl: Bundeswohnungsbau in Bonn, in Die Bauverwaltung 1 (1952), pp. 87-91.

Awards

• Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1953)
• Order of St. Sylvester
  Order of St. Sylvester
  The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Sylvester Pope and Martyr , sometimes referred to as the Sylvestrine Order, or the Pontifical Order of Pope St Sylvester, is one of five Orders of Knighthood awarded directly by the Pope as Supreme Pontiff and head of the Catholic Church and as the Head of...