Werner Hegemann

Werner Manfred Hegemann was born in Mannheim, Germany June 15, 1881. He studied urban planning, history of art and national economy in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Strasbourg and at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He was a critic on architecture, an author and publisher. 1908 he attained a doctorate in economy. From 1913 till the end of World War I Hegemann lived in the USA and worked as a teacher and urban planer. Back in Germany he published the Wasmuths Monatsheften für Baukunst (Wasmuths monthly magazine for architecture) from 1924 till 1933. His most important and critical work as an author was Das steinerne Berlin (the stone-Berlin) in 1930. 1933 his books were banned by the Nationalsocialists. He emigrated to the United States of America and lectured urban planning at Columbia University, New York. He also kept publishing his literary work und criticisms till his death in New York on April 12, 1936.