Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander

Place: Skövde

Born: 1863

Death: 1931

Biography:

Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander was a Swedish architect, who became one of the most prominent engineers during the first building period of the Berlin U-Bahn network in the early twentieth century. He was born in Skövde, Sweden and studied at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology and the Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg. He began his career as a site engineer at the construction of the new Reichstag building under the direction of Paul Wallot and continued his career in the architectural office of Alfred Messel. In 1896, he set up his own business and worked as a designer of the Hochbahngesellschaft, an affiliate of Siemens & Halske established in 1897 to build the first U-Bahn elevated railway of Berlin, opened in 1902. Up to 1931, he constructed about 70 U-Bahn stations, many of which are still in use today. He is known for his modern and functional designs, and is considered one of the most important architects of the Berlin U-Bahn.