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Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonia
About Erich Jacoby
- Erich Roman Ludwig Jacoby (16 June [O.S.
- 4] 1885, Reval (now Tallinn) – 10 December 1941 in Gotenhafen (now Gdynia)) was an Baltic German architect. Jacoby is one of the first ten leading architects of Estonian professional architecture, being the founding member of the Estonian Architectural Association (1921) Influenced the Estonian architectural culture significantly through its creative and institutional activities. Erich Jacoby was born in Reval (now Tallinn) as a son of the town engineer Carl Gustav Jacoby.
- He studied architecture at the Hanover University of Technology (1905-1907) and graduated from the Riga Polytechnic Institute in 1913.
- He then began work as an architect and in 1915 he became a master of the Finnish national romantic architecture at Lars Sonck. In Reval, in 1913-1915, together with H.
- Schmidt and from 1920 to 1927, together with F.
- de Vries, architectural bureaus were designed, mainly for residential buildings, as well as for alterations in the Tallinn Old Town and industrial buildings in Tallinn. In 1915-1918, Jacoby was mobilized in a tsarist army in the construction of a maritime insurance company in Reval. In 1921, Erich Jacoby was one of the founding members of the Estonian Association of Architects, from 1927-1932, Erich Jacoby was the head of the Agricultural Union Civil Construction Service from the year 1931 as the Head of the Agricultural Union of Officials, State Officials and Farmers. Head of Construction Services at the Associate Union in 1927-32. From 1932, Erich Jacoby was a lecturer at Tallinn Technical School, as well as actively participated in various competitions at the exhibitions and during his career (Vabaduse väljak, 1928; rebuilding of the Estonian Theater, 1931, art building, Estonian Art Museum and Tallinn Town Hall project together with Erwin Brockner, 1937, Pärnu Beach Hotel, Riga The Estonian Embassy building with Hermann Berg, 1938, the White Hall renovation project of Toompea Castle, 1935, etc.), which, unfortunately, was not completed by the magnificent prize-winning competition projects. In 1939 Erich Jacoby moved to Umsiedlung in Germany. Erich Jacoby died on December 10, 1941, occupied by Germans in Gotenhafen (now Gdynia).
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