Born in
Burg bei Magdeburg, Eggert studied with
Heinrich Strack at the
Bauakademie in Berlin. He worked from 1875 to 1889 as ''
in Strasbourg, designing several buildings of the university in the Neustadt such as the observatory, and building the Palais du Rhin'' (Emperor's Palace) for
Wilhelm II. He built the
Frankfurt Main Station from 1883 to 1888, regarded as his most important building. Eggert served as
Oberbaurat in the (Ministry of Public Works) of Prussia in Berlin, where he was mostly responsible for church buildings. He participated in the competition for the New Town Hall in Hannover in 1895, won the second competition a year later and was commissioned to build the exterior. From 1898 he worked in his own office in Hannover. He was in conflict about the design of the
Prunkräume (Representative Rooms) of the Town Hall with
Christian Heinrich Tramm who had designed the
Welfenschloss (Welf palace, now the main building of
Leibniz University Hannover), As a result, his contract was cancelled in 1909. Many of Eggert's designs are in the style of
Neo-Renaissance. He was a member of the
Prussian Academy of Arts from 1896 in the section '''' (Arts). Eggert died in
Weimar. == Recognition==